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...Shreveport, La. radio officials several times silenced parts of a campaign speech by Governor Earl Kemp Long, Huey's brother, because of his hells, damns, other profanities. Finally, political prudence getting the better of discretion, they gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 22, 1940 | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

...sisters and his friends. Seven of them gave him a perfect alibi: that he was 250 miles from the explosion scene at the time. But careful detective work placed his car near the Miller house that night; established his purchase of a case of dynamite in March 1938 in Shreveport, La.; proved by dust analysis that dynamite had been carried in one of Wyatt's suitcases found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Classroom Casanova | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...Shreveport, La., while Winifred Parker, 18, was taking instruction in artificial respiration, her small niece lost her balance in shallows of a pool 25 feet away, drowned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Beer | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

...Interstate Commerce Commission approved the merger of the Kansas City Southern and the Louisiana & Arkansas railroads last May, made possible an integrated mid-continent system extending from Kansas City to Shreveport, La., and Port Arthur, Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Brothers | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

...shove up the ladder by presenting him in a concert before radio scouts, theatrical agents and pressmen. Lead Belly prospered, bought himself a new guitar, drawled his rhyme-sprouting improvisations in concert halls and over the air. In 1935 he sent for his best girl, swarthy Martha Promise, a Shreveport, La. laundress, and married her in one of the "shoutin'est" suburban weddings Manhattan's Negro colony had ever seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lead Belly | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

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