Word: newmyer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conference could recall any historic event that occurred on Feb. 4. Routed from his bed, the city librarian ploughed through volumes of histories. Hours later he reported: "Nothing ever happened in this world on Feb. 4." His thanks was a blast of purple oaths from Huey Long. Arthur G. Newmyer, one of the publishers of the New Orleans Item, was roused by telephone. A member of his family dug from the World Almanac the fact that President Wilson had severed relations with Germany on the night of Feb. 3. Huey Long pounced on it: "It took them two nights...