Word: louisiana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...centuries ago. The big New Orleans absinthe firm is L. E. Jung & Wulff Co. In 1926 Mr. Jung died worth some $250.000 and was succeeded by Mr. Wulff as president. Swank Son Frederick August Wulff is treasurer, plays crack polo and is a captain in the 108th Cavalry of Louisiana's National Guard, but the firm's "Grand Old Absinthe Man" is James Bartholomew Higgins, 78, who has been in absinthe for 63 years...
Married. Alice Lee Grosjean, 28, Louisiana supervisor of public accounts, onetime secretary to Senator Huey Long; and William Allen Tharp, 31, secretary of the Louisiana State Tax Commission, brother-in-law of Tycoon Errett Lobban Cord; in Los Angeles...
...Huey P. Long announced through the telephone from Baton Rouge today that his only unfinished business in Louisiana was to get Mayor I. Semmes Walmsleyhof, New Orleasn out of office
...Heil Huey' in the State of Louisiana now, but it must be admitted that the citizens seem calm about the Putsch which has established the dictatorship of der Kingfish...
...last week said William Cabell Greet, 35, a tweedy, little, sandy-haired Columbia University professor whose great enthusiasm is U. S. speech. He had obtained records of radio speeches by the Louisiana Senator, the President, the editor of Today, many another New Dealer, to add to a linguistic library which now includes 2,500 disks recording the speech of Maine farmers, Southern mountaineers, Barnard girls, Thomas A. Edison, Herbert Hoover, Al Smith and Calvin Coolidge ("perfect Connecticut Valley...