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...indictment last year of eight Long followers for income tax evasion. Last spring the Government warmed up with State Representative Joe Fisher, a petty henchman, put him in the penitentiary for 18 months. Last week it went to the mat with its first big-time Longster when Abraham Lazard Shushan was brought to trial in New Orleans on a charge of evading Federal taxes on $448,000 of a 1929-33 income...
...Abraham Lazard Shushan was also the Senator's true-blue friend. It was he who rushed from the death bed with the first news of his chief's passing: "Huey's dead. It's terrible!" But Colonel Shushan, drygoods merchant, president of the New Orleans Levee Board and builder of one of the biggest, most expensive ($4,000,000) and most useless airports in the world for his personal glorification, was not destined to figure largely in the Long inheritance. Like Oscar Allen, his chief service to the Kingfish...
Setting of Pylon is the city of "New Valois." New Orleanians will quickly pierce the thin disguise, will wryly admit the biting likeness of the "Feinman Field" to their own "Abe" Shushan airport, reclaimed at enormous expense from the waters of Lake Pontchartrain. Dubious hero of the tale is a nameless and quixotic reporter, who is covering an airmeet at Feinman Field and stumbles on a queer situation, a flying triangle. Laverne, the woman-apex, is technically married to Shumann, a racing pilot, and her little boy bears his name. But she has no idea whether Shumann or the other...
Dispirited though he was. Col. Shushan was on hand when the air races got their second start last week. The first day of Lent proved fatally inauspicious for Capt. W. Merle Nelson of Hollywood, Calif. On the evening of the opening day he attached 18 rockets to the lower wings of his biplane, roared off into an inside loop. For a few moments the small night crowd saw what appeared to be a giant glowing cigar butt trace a circle in the dark sky. The circle then swooped downward, burst into flames and Stunter Nelson screamed just once...
...many times is Col. Shushan's name on Shushan airport...