Word: louisiana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into the lobby of New Orleans' Hotel Roosevelt, stronghold of the partisans of Huey P. Long, ventured Burt W. Henry, president of the Anti-Long Honest Election League. There he caught sight of John Holmes Overton, junior Senator from Louisiana and the Kingfish's short, pudgy henchman. Burt Henry suddenly remembered the day last winter when John Overton, on the floor of the Senate, had accused him of hypocrisy for representing the Honest Election League as nonpartisan. Said Henry: "If you do not apologize we'll go outside and settle this thing." On second thought he decided...
Week before the Louisiana State-Vanderbilt football game at Nashville, Senator Huey P. Long generously announced that he would finance the trip for 1,500 cadets, lend $7 to any other Louisiana State student who lacked funds. Purpose of the junket, said the "Kingfish," was to give the university a good name. At a student meeting, he gave out rules: "No liquor . . . no pulling the bell cord. . . . Don't take me lightly...
...party system, the incompetence of the Deep South's voters or the type of man who there goes out for public life, the Senate has in late years suffered such people, as Alabama's Heflin, South Carolina's Blease, Georgia's Watson, Louisiana's Long, Mississippi's Vardaman. Mississippi, where Jefferson Davis lived, where the illiteracy rate is the fourth highest in the U. S., where poverty is said to have driven 'all the good niggers' over into Alabama, last week fairly outdid itself in the matter of picking...
...Orleans, the Supreme Court of Louisiana, rejecting the opinion of a lower court that "parents who desire the blessings of the patter of little feet must be responsible for the damage done by little hands or, as in the case here, by little teeth," ruled that Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Butterworth were not liable for the action of their 3-year-old daughter Eva Camille who, in a "moment of rage," bit the arm of her Negro nurse...
...Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nevada, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin...