Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bright & early one morning last week Citizen Sam Jones got up, piled his family into an automobile, and rode through the downtown section of Baton Rouge. Ahead of him sputtered motorcycle police, behind him came the Lieutenant Governor-elect of Louisiana, the Attorney General-elect, many another bigwig, State University cadets. Crowds cheered, bands played themselves red in the face...
...Louisiana State University stadium (built by Huey Long) rode smiling Citizen Jones. Solemn-faced, he put his hand on a Bible opened to Exodus, pointed a finger at the Commandment which says, "Thou Shalt not Steal," raised his other hand and took the oath as Governor of Louisiana. At that, 50,000 people applauded, fell upon 1.000 barbecued beeves, 130,000 foot-long sandwiches, downed gallons of lemonade...
Some ten thousand men of Harvard--not to mention nearly half of Cambridge's female population--jammed Sever Quadrangle last evening to hear Conductor Woodworth lead his Glee Club through a program which packed plenty of musical oomph. "Casey Jones" rode the rails again, while Handel's "Samson" buffeted the pillars of Widener. Judging by its tumultuous applause, academic Cambridge clearly appreciated the first of these free, outdoor concerts...
Vassar's reputation for radicalism comes from such campus heroines as Inez Milholland, '09, a black-haired Irish beauty who as an undergraduate soapboxed for woman suffrage, later led shirtwaist strikes in Manhattan, once rode a white horse down Fifth Avenue, died stumping for suffragism and socialism in 1915. But of all Vassar's graduates, Mrs. Allen reports, 70% are Republican. Other statistics...
...personality of its own, favors much local news. His Miami paper is Democratic, his Akron paper Independent. During Akron's big strike in 1936, he splashed a strongly worded Page One editorial at a vigilante group which wanted to smash the picket line and open the plant, rode out the protests, saw the strike settled two weeks later. As an active head of the Free Press he plans to nurse it gently from a rock-ribbed, standpat Republicanism to a more Independent demeanor, for he likes to be free to jump in any political direction, favors the Third Term...