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Sued. Huey P. ("Kingfish") Long, U. S. Senator from Louisiana; by Anne Ector Pleasant, wife of Louisiana's one-time Governor Ruffin G. Pleasant; for $250,000. Charges: that he defamed her character by arresting her without cause after ordering her out of the State House 1932, that he called her "a drunken, cursing woman." Chirped the Kingfish: ''That means that up to date I have been sued...
...John Ruffin Green was looking for a name for the tobacco he made in Durham, N. C. Over a dish of fried oysters a friend, John Y. Whitted, pointed to the mustard jar and said: "There is a condiment that is made in Durham, England. It bears the sign of a Durham bull's neck. Why not name your product Bull Durham Smoking Tobacco and adopt the whole bull as a trade-mark?" Tobaccoman Green immediately had a bull painted on sheet iron, mounted in front of his factory. The bull was heavy, clumsy, stolid and faced toward...
...Charles Ruffin Hook, vice president of American Rolling Mill Co.: "Wage reductions would, in our opinion, retard and not stimulate business...
...simply a coincidence that at every mill in the two Carolinas where trouble has occurred that the semblance of strikes or disorders have occurred at mills still dominated by "home" interests. L. H. RUFFIN...