Word: louisiana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dragged a wrangle between Louisiana's Long and Kentucky's Logan. The "Kingfish" was all over the floor, red-faced, arms waving, shouting, whispering. Cried he: "I am not the only man in the United States who does not understand what this thing is all about. . . . We are being rushed pell-mell to get into this World Court so that Señor Ab Jap or some other something from Japan can pass upon our controversies...
...bobbed Louisiana's Long: "Mr. President, I was only going to ask the Senator about what propaganda he referred to. Did he refer to his own speech of last night...
Even Huey Long had something to say about the World Court. During the tirade he spoke about "these rascals we have here." Senator Lewis, of Illinois, rose quickly to his feet, deeply chagrined, and asked, "May I take the liberty to suggest to the able Senator from Louisiana that when he makes the observation 'those rascals we have here,' he does not really mean physically here in the United States Senate?" Huey hastily replied "Oh, the Senator knows that I by all means exclude the Senate, and exclude myself...
...which President Roosevelt had forbidden the interstate shipment of hot oil (TIME, Jan. 14), he had for an audience his eight associates, a handful of lawyers, a few newshawks and a chamber half filled with newlyweds, schoolboys and sightseers. Most of Congress was in the Senate chamber listening to Louisiana's Long start his anti-New Deal campaign. Last week on second thought Senators and Representatives realized they might have spent their time more profitably in listening to Chief Justice Hughes...
Herbert Hoover had barely unpacked his trunks in the White House when Prohibition's most spectacular international incident arose to embarrass him. Off the coast of Louisiana U. S. Coast Guard cutters chased the rum-running Canadian schooner I'm Alone 200 miles out to sea, there shelled and sank her (TIME, April 1, 1929). One seaman, a French citizen, was killed. British and Canadian newspapers roared with pain. U. S. Wets bubbled over in frothy indignation. Terse memoranda flew between London, Ottawa and Washington. Strenuously the U. S. State Department sought to defend...