Word: louisiana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eight colleagues had the inspiration of a President to whom vast schemes of national betterment are political meat & drink. Exalting, too, was their vast field of operations-sweeping from the Appalachians to the Rocky Mountains, from the pine forests of Minnesota to the cypress swamps of Louisiana, containing more than one-third the total area...
...Louisiana State University, Mr. Embree concluded, it is not even among the best Southern institutions: Virginia, Texas, North Carolina, Vanderbilt, Tulane, Duke, Emory...
President Edwin Rogers Embree of the Julius Rosenwald Fund has never left anyone in doubt of his low esteem for Southern educational standards. But President Embree is an exceedingly genial man and last spring when he passed through Baton Rouge he allowed newshawks to quote him as saying that Louisiana State University had "every right to come to be included in the first twelve or 15 universities" of the U. S. Month ago James Monroe Smith, president of L. S. U., quoted Mr. Embree as predicting the imminent inclusion of his institution among the first dozen U. S. universities. When...
Huey Long has always blamed Standard Oil Co. of Louisiana for the abortive movement to impeach him as Governor in 1929 (TIME, April 8, 1929, et seq.). He has hated the old city of Alexandria since some of its citizens rotten-egged him during a political speech last year. Last week the vindictive Kingfish caught up with one old enemy by laying a tax of 5? per barrel on oil refining within the State and disposed of another with a bill ousting all Alexandria's elected officials, giving him power to replace them...
...grudge did the Kingfish bear against "my university" because some of the journalism students at Louisiana State had dared to criticize him (TIME, Dec. 10) or because its football coach refused to take his orders. Last week he upped the State's corporation franchise tax from $1.50 to $2.00 per $1,000 of capital, to provide $500,000 for schools of dentistry and pharmacy at Louisiana State. With other bills Boss Long grabbed power to: 1) appoint sheriffs' deputies; 2) cripple New Orleans finances by banning municipal liquor taxes; 3) lay a sweeping tax on manufacturers; 4) take...