Word: maestri
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only natural that memories of "the Kingfish" should crowd into the hotel room, given the victorious occasion and the company. Around Earl sat some of Huey's old associates: former Governor Richard W. Leche (rhymes with flesh), who went to jail in 1941 for mail fraud; Robert S. Maestri, mayor of a graft-ridden New Orleans for ten years, until ousted by a reform candidate in 1946; George Reyer, Maestri's police superintendent; and Abe L. Shushan, former president of the levee board, who also went to jail in 1941 for mail fraud. Earl began to reminisce...
Died. William George Helis, 63, "The Golden Greek," onetime immigrant dishwasher who struck it rich in Louisiana oil, became a behind-the-scenes power in Louisiana politics (he backed the Longs and their friends, including New Orleans' onetime Mayor Robert Sidney Maestri, involved with Helis in 1939's "hot oil" scandals); of a lung ailment; in Baltimore. Helis was a big spender, a big horseman, a sturdy Democrat who contributed liberally to Harry Truman's 1948 campaign...