Word: shreveporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unfortunate for occasional TIME readers that your publication cannot be secured with more ease at the corner or neighborhood drug stores and news stands. I have actually driven to every stand and drug store in Shreveport trying to get a copy...
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...March 1929, Col. Robert Ewing's New Orleans States and Shreveport Times accused hotheaded, dimple-chinned little Governor Huey P. Long-self-styled "Kaiser" of Louisiana-of drunkenness and consorting with criminals. The following month Governor Long was impeached by the House of Representatives on one of 19 charges for having "attempted to suppress the freedom of the press" by threatening to expose the fact that Editor Charles P. Manship of the Baton Rouge State Times had a brother in an insane asylum. But Governor Long, supported by the State Senate, was never tried. Fortnight ago Col. Ewing (onetime...
...Court as "the economic dictator of the U. S.," stormy little Senator Glass declared that it "has gone far afield from its original functions and has constituted itself a court in economics." He recalled the fact that as an Associate Justice Mr. Hughes in 1914 had written the famed Shreveport decision which Senator Glass claimed destroyed the last vestige of State control of freight rates.* North Dakota's Senator Nye chimed in: "The sooner citizens get rid of this idea that a judge is more honorable than a legislator, the clearer will become our perception of the evils...
...Texas had fixed intrastate rates in favor of local shippers, against shippers outside the State. Shreveport, La., appealed to the Supreme Court which voided the Texas-made rates as discriminatory...