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Wisdom brought on witnesses and exhibits to show what happened in this year's delegate election. When the Wisdom-Eisenhower forces outnumbered the Jackson-Taft partisans in caucuses and conventions, the old guard bolted and held its own meetings. Witness Kenneth Paisant, from New Orleans' Twelfth Ward, Jackson's home district, described his ward meeting. "After the delegates were nominated, Jackson said, 'Our delegates are elected,' led his group from the room, even turned out the lights." Witness J. Paulin Duhe of New Iberia testified that in his (the Third) congressional district, there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Louisiana's 15 | 7/14/1952 | See Source »

...divorce suits will be heard by a special section of the Fourth Civil Tribunal, presided over by Rieul Paisant, expert on international and U. S. state laws, who speaks English comme un Anglais. Thorough examination of all applications is to result under the new regime and particular attention is to be paid to the method of establishing residence and the possibility of collusion between the litigants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Stiffer Divorces | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

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