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...sounding like he's been ridin' a HORSE a horse of course of course unless its a SMACK and JB himself sounding...restrained? So here it comes, full-force Mothership, landing at a DISCO nearest you and now, twenty-years later still goin' down pickin' yer ass and then smellin' th' funky finger, right in yo' nose. From my ass to you. Achoo...

Author: By Seth Mnookin, | Title: Make It Funky | 12/9/1993 | See Source »

...Difference Now. The losers were egg-bald 67-year-old Lewis L. Morgan, longtime public chairwarmer in the state's pre-reform days, and other "old regulars" of New Orleans Mayor Robert S. Maestri's machine. Tenor Davis, supported by Governor Sam Houston (''Sweet-Smellin' Sam") Jones, gave the Longsters even a worse walloping than Jones had given them in 1940-a 37,000 vote majority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Triumphant Minstrel | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

When Reform Governor "Sweet-Smellin' " Sam Houston Jones bravely issued a statement which noted 1) weakening of the machine-controlled vote, 2) mounting of reform sentiment, New Orleanians laughed. They saw-as Sweet-Smellin' Sam must have seen-that Louisiana's brief two years of Reform Government looked to be about over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: The Pendulum Swings | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

...cycle of reform that turned out most of the Long gang, rolled "Sweet-Smellin' " Sam Houston Jones into the Governorship in 1940, did not touch Bob Maestri. Instead, it got rid of his rivals for Huey's power. Most of the disgruntled Longsters who teamed with Sam Jones to lick Huey's brother Earl are now in Maestri's camp. It looks as if Reform has about run its brief cycle in Louisiana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Maestri Rides Again | 1/19/1942 | See Source »

...days of political plunder that under the Longs and the Long machine had almost wrecked the State. Longsters had called Sam Houston Jones "High-Hat, Sweet Smelling Sambo." Last week perfume hawkers yelled: "Here y'are-dip in it-wash in it and win. Sam Jones sweet smellin' perfume. Get like sweet smellin' Sam, that Governor man." For the first time in twelve years, Louisiana smelled sweet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Sam Jones Comes to Town | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

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