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Word: shreveporter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...absence and unmake the Long machine. The Governor's 12-year-old son Russell went to the Texas capital in his place, explaining that: "Papa couldn't leave because he was afraid Lieut. Governor Cyr might make a mess." From slangy William Kennon Henderson's troublemaking Station KWKH at Shreveport, La.. "Papa" Long addressed the meeting at Austin, declared that the "Drop-a-Crop" plan would increase Texas' cotton income this year from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUSBANDRY: Drop-a-Crop | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

...Rose McConnell Long whom the Governor married in 19103 after she had won a baking contest with a lard substitute he was peddling, does not regularly reside with her husband in ihe executive mansion at Baton Rouge or in his elaborate hotel suite in New Orleans. She remains at Shreveport where she says she prefers the schools for the three Long youngsters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Long's Latest | 10/20/1930 | See Source »

...said to pretty little Miss Alice Lee Grosjean, his hazel-eyed, auburn-haired, 24-year-old confidential secretary: "Miss Grosjean, write out a commission appointing Miss Alice Lee Grosjean Secretary of State, effective at once." An hour later Miss Grosjean took the oath of office, telephoned her parents at Shreveport that she was "just thrilled to death." Thus did Louisiana get its first female Secretary of State (salary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Long's Latest | 10/20/1930 | See Source »

South: Alabama v. Tennessee, at Tuscaloosa; Centenary v. Stetson, at Shreveport; Georgia v. North Carolina, at Athens; Georgia Tech v. Alabama Poly, at Atlanta; Tulane v. Birmingham Southern, at New Orleans; V. M. I. v. Virginia, at Lexington; William & Mary v. V. P. I., at Richmond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Table: Oct. 13, 1930 | 10/13/1930 | See Source »

Sale of TIME, hitherto limited to prominent news stands in large cities, is now being extended to all cities and to smaller stands patronized by TIME-readers. TIME welcomes information such as New Sub scriber Brown gives, will forthwith "cover" Shreveport's news stands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Hines Hailed | 8/4/1930 | See Source »

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