Word: shreveport
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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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...