Word: maestri
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sunshine, Nobody's Darlin' but Mine, and It Makes No Difference Now. The losers were egg-bald 67-year-old Lewis L. Morgan, longtime public chairwarmer in the state's pre-reform days, and other "old regulars" of New Orleans Mayor Robert S. Maestri's machine. Tenor Davis, supported by Governor Sam Houston (''Sweet-Smellin' Sam") Jones, gave the Longsters even a worse walloping than Jones had given them in 1940-a 37,000 vote majority...
Citizens of New Orleans hugged the ground last week as the pendulum of machine government in Louisiana whooshed back over their necks. In a mayoralty election, Mayor Robert Sidney Maestri, surviving veteran of Huey Long's praetorian guard, scored a comfortable victory over disunited Reform forces, settled back for another four years of power...
Nobody has ever found anything seriously wrong with Maestri's administration. Federal investigators have raked over his record without finding a trace of the graft that sent most of Huey Long's inheritors (including ex-Governor Leche) to the penitentiary. Since he took office five years ago, he has pulled New Orleans out of bankruptcy, put its finances on a cash basis, cut $20,000,000 from its debt. Like the Kingfish, Maestri is smart. His friends dabble in rackets to their hearts' content, but Maestri apparently keeps his hands clean. "Let the other guys have that...
...cycle of reform that turned out most of the Long gang, rolled "Sweet-Smellin' " Sam Houston Jones into the Governorship in 1940, did not touch Bob Maestri. Instead, it got rid of his rivals for Huey's power. Most of the disgruntled Longsters who teamed with Sam Jones to lick Huey's brother Earl are now in Maestri's camp. It looks as if Reform has about run its brief cycle in Louisiana...
There is no real opposition to another term for Bob Maestri. Running against him is a bullnecked, balding lawyer, 38-year-old Herve Racivitch, who has been licked three times before-once for a minor city office, twice for Congress. If Maestri wins the city primary on Jan. 27, he will be on his way to the Governor's Mansion, may even start unpacking the rakish toga that Huey wore to the U.S. Senate...