Word: uhler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...writes Dr. John Earle Uhler in a novel, Cane Juice, which he published last month.* A Yankee, born in Media, Pa. forty years ago, he had gone to Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge) to be a member of its English department after teaching for eleven years at Johns Hopkins. He admitted he wished to "write a lyrical story of Louisiana life." He visited Louisiana bayous, talked to Creoles and Cajun folk, watched them at work in sugar-houses. Last week Dr. Uhler's cane juice was seething, fermenting angrily...
Then began another cause celebre which resulted, as is often the case, in people muttering about "academic freedom," getting up petitions, holding meetings. Dr. Uhler's resignation was at once demanded. Few days later, in spite of sputtering members of the American Association of University Professors (of which Dr. Uhler is a member) and a committee of New Orleans writers headed by Lyle Saxon (Old Louisiana, Lafitte, The Pirate), he was suspended. Then met the University Executive Board, of which Governor Huey Pierce Long is a leading member. Forthwith it dismissed Dr. Uhler...