Word: louisiana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Baton Rouge, La., Nov. 26--Senator Huey Long's attempt to censor the "Reveille," student newspaper at Louisiana State University, resulted tonight in resignation of the entire staff, except one member...
Died. Edwin Sidney Broussard, 59, onetime (1921-33) U. S. Senator from Louisiana; of a heart attack; in New Iberia, La. Onetime friend and patron of Huey P. Long, Broussard found himself beaten for re-election by the Long machine in 1932, protested loudly and futilely to the Senate...
...Senator then rushed off to Baton Rouge to address a pep meeting in behalf of his political football team, Louisiana State University. The team was getting ready to trounce George Washington University in Washington, 6-to-0. In its absence, "Kingfish" Long proclaimed that the rally constituted a parish meeting, solemnly had Right Halfback Abe Mickal elected State Senator...
...point was raised that Mickal was a Syrian, under 21, and a resident of Mississippi, hence unable to qualify for the job. The "Kingfish" retorted that his Legislature would seat Senator-elect Mickal and that was all there was to it. "Mississippi has annexed itself to Louisiana," he observed, "anyhow. Napoleon came 'rom Corsica, didn...
Huey Long offered to bet that Louisiana State could beat Minnesota and Alabama on the same afternoon. Having made one member of the team a State Senator (see p. 17), he promised colonelcies to all State players who made touchdowns against George Washington University. Bert Yates made the one that enabled Louisiana to squeak through...