Word: shushan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Leche, a fat and jolly man, built himself a mansion on the exclusive St. Tammany "Gold Coast." George Caldwell, an even fatter man, who was construction supervisor for the burgeoning L.S.U. campus, built an even better one-its bathroom boasted 14-karat gold fixtures. Not to be outdone, Abe Shushan, president of the New Orleans Levee Board, built a mansion...
...only one man. Jesus Christ picked twelve, and one of 'em was a son-of-a-gun." Then he just hung on-like a sailor lashed to the mast-while gales of scandal blew around his ears. Leche went to prison. So did Doc Smith, George Caldwell, Abe Shushan, and Huey's Campaign Treasurer Seymour Weiss. Monte Hart, a favored contractor, blew out his brains...
...evil work went on. It was carried on by his underlings: Seymour Weiss, who once ran Huey's favorite barbershop and who handled the swag and kept no records; Abe Shushan, the dry-goods dealer who became president of the Levee Board; James Monroe ("Doc") Smith, president of the university; and big George Caldwell, superintendent of buildings at L.S.U. There were others, like Robert Maestri (rhymes with pastry), the conservation commissioner who later became New Orleans' mayor. And there was Earl, Huey's less talented brother. "I ain't like Huey," Earl admitted. "I gotta...
...Federal Government which moved in on them at last, and sent Weiss, Shushan, Smith and Caldwell to jail. The way was open to reform. Sam Jones, an earnest attorney, routed the heirs of Huey Long and won the governorship. That was in 1940. In that same election, Chep Morrison was sent to the legislature...
Said Bilbo of the $3,000 he had borrowed from Abe Shushan to make a divorce settlement with his wife: "I still owe $2,250 on this alimony nightmare." The swmiming-pool bill and the Morrissey loan, he vowed he would...