Word: louisiana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Louisiana treated the nation to a Legislative spectacle the like of which oldsters had not seen since carpetbag days. As usual, at the centre of the spectacle, was Huey Pierce Long, waving his arms, shouting, swearing, sweating?and giving orders which few Louisianans dared to defy. The scene was the State Capitol at Baton Rouge and the action concerned Senator Long's thoroughly successful attempt to rivet his political dictatorship upon Louisiana in advance of the September primaries...
...Because the courts tended to interfere with his use of the military in such political rough & tumble, "Kingfish" Long ordered Governor Allen, his office-holding stooge, to call the Legislature of Longsters into special session to legalize and regularize such tactics. Within four days the senior Senator from Louisiana had been given everything he wanted...
...election guards, it may choose, for the sake of economy, to concede the election. "Kingfish" Long is taking no chances of again losing any Louisiana election as he did in New Orleans last January...
When another of his men, buzzard-bald Thomas Semmes Walmsley, Mayor of New Orleans, broke with Boss Long six months ago, the Louisiana "Kingfish" was less delighted. Last week he began his battle for revenge, a titan struggle of political machines, a free-for-all catch-as-catch-can with the courts, the national guard, the police, machine guns, radio and bad names as weapons. Point of the fight: Louisiana holds its Democratic primary Sept...
...Jack Torrance. Louisiana State's 275-Ib. weight-thrower, with a Brobdingnagian heave of 57 ft., 5 in. that broke all previous world's records, official or otherwise: the 16-lb. shot-put in an international track meet at Oslo, Norway...