Word: louisiana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More like a golf cup. than a political post, the House seat of Louisiana's 6th Congressional District was last week put up for competition for the third time in ten months. Mrs. Bolivar E. Kemp, widow of the onetime incumbent, won the first leg in a Democratic primary (tantamount to election) railroaded through by the Huey Long machine (TIME. Dec. 18 et seq.). Three weeks later Jared Young Sanders Jr., 42, onetime State Senator and son of a onetime Congressman and Governor, was declared the victor in a "citizens' '' election staged by the anti-Long...
...Passed the Jones Sugar Control bill: 1) making sugar a "basic commodity" so that a processing tax can be imposed on it; 2) directing the Secretary of Agriculture to limit beet sugar, production to 1,550,000 short tons, cane sugar production in Louisiana and Florida to 260,000 tons; 3) authorizing him to quota sugar imports of Cuba and U. S. island possessions so that total domestic production and imports shall not exceed U. S. consumption; sent it to the Senate...
...last week, most of the major-league teams which had been training in Florida, California, Louisiana and Mississippi since early March, had started north, playing exhibition games on the way. The season was scheduled to begin April 16, at Washington, with President Roosevelt as a spectator. Major developments since the Giants won the World Series last autumn: a uniform ball for both leagues, like the one used by the American League; new managers for five of the 16 major-league teams...
...entire U. S. sulphur production and the price for years has been $18 per ton- no more, no less. The companies are Texas Sulphur, which accounts for two-thirds of the production, and Freeport Texas, the principal deposits of which are at present not in Texas but in Louisiana. Last week Freeport Texas completed a four-year internal reorganization. John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, sportsman son of the late Payne Whitney, was made Freeport's board chairman. Jock Whitney graduated from Yale in 1926 and by the time he finally went to work as a buzzer boy in Lee, Higginson...
...more than 150 pages the reader is carried through a synopsis of the expedition's journal whose principal revelation is that Lewis acted largely as a botanical expert while Clark took active command. The remaining few pages are devoted to an account of Lewis' term as governor of the Louisiana Territory, to which post he had been appointed by Jefferson--an account which would be lamentably brief if it were not that he accomplished little as governor and became so despondent that he committed suicide...