Word: parham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from his native Maine but could not well explain why the electric rate at Bangor should be 9¢ per kilowatt hour. He favored moderate Federal regulation, opposed public operation. Democrat Marcel Garsaud was opposed by Alfred Danziger, an agent of Louisiana's loud little Governor and Senator-elect Huey Parham Long, who charged Mr. Garsaud was unfit for the job because of business obligations to New Orleans Public Service, an Electric Bond & Share subsidiary. Republican Claude Draper, for twelve years a Wyoming Public Utilities Commissioner, made the Senate Committee snicker when he justified a 10¢ per kilowatt hour rate...
...chance of Democratic control was further weakened by the announcement of Governor Huey Parham Long, Senator-elect from Louisiana, that he would not take his seat until his gubernatorial term expires in 1932. Governor Long feared to leave his State in charge of Lieut. Governor Paul Cyr, his political foe, who has vowed to wreck the Long patronage machine if its owner ever crosses the State line...
...Miss Grosjean had left high school to marry James Terrell of El Dorado, Ark. At 18 she went to work for Lawyer Huey Parham Long. She has been constantly with him ever since. She campaigned with him for the Governorship in 1928, helped him beat impeachment proceedings in 1929, worked to win him his nomination for the U. S. Senate this year. Three years ago she divorced Terrell. During this year's campaign Terrell threatened to sue Governor Long for alienating his wife's affections. Mrs. Rose McConnell Long whom the Governor married in 19103 after...
Early one morning last week at Baton Rouge, James J. Bailey, Louisiana's Secretary of State, died suddenly of pneumonia. Governor Huey Parham Long, the State's 36-year-old political dictator, went around to the Bailey home to offer condolences. When he returned to the capitol, he said to pretty little Miss Alice Lee Grosjean, his hazel-eyed, auburn-haired, 24-year-old confidential secretary: "Miss Grosjean, write out a commission appointing Miss Alice Lee Grosjean Secretary of State, effective at once." An hour later Miss Grosjean took the oath of office, telephoned her parents at Shreveport...
...Autocracy of Mr. Parham at $1 is not only indistinguishable in size and format from novels selling at $2.50, but is illustrated by famed English Caricaturist "Law" (David...