Word: odom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Political wiseacres were sure of the result. It would be a 4-3 decision upholding the law, Justices Higgins, Ponder, Land and Fournet (proLong) voting for it, Justices Rogers, Odom and Chief Justice Charles Austin O'Niell (anti-Long) voting against it. They were bewildered last week when by vote of 6-1, only Justice Ponder dissenting, the Court held Huey Long's primary law unconstitutional. What that signified puzzled many...
...this was of considerable embarrassment to District Attorney John Fred Odom of East Baton Rouge. It was up to him to investigate both the murder of Long and the execution of Dr. Weiss by Long's guards. Unfortunately District Attorney Odom is an anti-Long man, for Baton Rouge is an anti-Long town which did not mourn much for the Dictator's passing last week. What was more, Mr. Odom was among those present at the New Orleans meeting under discussion...
...Odom dismissed the Christenberry charges with "a derisive laugh." In all candor, however, he added: "It is possible that someone said something about shooting Long. Wherever two or three people gathered together that thought was expressed?on street corners, in hotel lobbies and in barrooms...