Word: shreveporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there to drawl his endless funny stories. Board Chairman Clarence Edward Groesbeck of Electric Bond & Share went down from Manhattan. An old friend, he controls the utility companies of which Mr. Couch is president. Charles Peter ("Pete") Couch, the host's brother, brought more utility men from Shreveport, La. Most of the guests were already settled before Owen D. Young and Charles Gates Dawes arrived. They were met at the Hot Springs station by Mr. Couch, his close friend, Arkansas' Senator Joseph T. Robinson, and President Rudolf S. Hecht of the American Bankers' Association...
Married. Johnson Olin Couch, son of Arkansas' Harvey Crowley Couch (see p. 53); and Anna Trimble of Shreveport, La.; in Shreveport...
Died. Mrs. Anne Ector Pleasant, 56, wife of onetime Governor of Louisiana Ruffin Golson Pleasant; by accidentally drinking a poisonous antiseptic in a dark bathroom; in Shreveport, La. She was founder and headmistress of Pleasant Hall, swank girls' private school at Shreveport. Still pending was her suit against Senator Huey Pierce Long for causing her false arrest and calling her a "drunken cursing woman" when she sought to see public State records in the State Capitol at Baton Rouge (TIME, June...
...Shreveport...
...extermination of Huey Long md all his kind from politics. I am not here to talk, but to listen to what you want me to do." "If it is necessary to teach them decency at the end of a hempen rope," cried Mayor George W. Hardy Jr. of Shreveport, "I, for one, am willing to swing the rope!" Adjourning with the angry cry that the next time they returned to the State capital it would be with pistols, the crowd went home to organize a Statewide body of anti-Long vigilantes...