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...Louisiana Polytechnic Institute (Ruston, La.) Senior Ann Holstead wrote an essay for her English class. Said Sophomore Varnelle Plastow: "It smells." Thereupon Miss Holstead, a Louisianan, challenged Miss Plastow, a Long Islander, to a duel. Time: the morning after Miss Holstead's graduation. Place: behind the stadium. Distance: ten paces. Weapons: chocolate pies. Result: Miss Plastow got plastered...
...regimentation" was cheap grain prices, foreclosed mortgages. At Reno, AAAdministrator Chester C. Davis cried that opponents of AAA had but one idea, the same idea which led to the Depression: to keep the Government from helping farmers. And, most indefatigable of all, was the generalissimo himself, Secretary Wallace. At Ruston, La., at Paducah and at Hopkinsville, Ky., he got up on the stump at farmers' meetings to exclaim...
...Near Ruston, La. on Christmas Eve. Sheriff A. J. Thigpen and two deputies dug up a gallon jug of whiskey near the house of Farmer Philip Harris. When they entered the house, the farmer made "a suspicious move" toward his coat pocket. The sheriff shot him dead...
South: Duke v. North Carolina at Durham; Georgia v. Georgia Tech at Athens; Louisiana Tech v. Southwestern Louisiana Institute at Ruston; Maryland v. Western Maryland at Baltimore; Tennessee v. South Carolina at Knoxville...
South: Duke v. North Carolina at Durham; Georgia v. Georgia Tech at Athens; Louisiana Tech v. South Western Louisiana Institute at Ruston; Maryland v. Western Maryland at Baltimore; Tennessee v. South Carolina at Knoxville...