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Inaugurated. Robert Sidney Maestri, 47, squat, swarthy New Orleans real estate tycoon, a political heir to the late Huey Long; as the city's first bachelor mayor; after certification by Louisiana's Governor Richard Webster Leche. Because no opponent appeared, no election was necessary...
...Ohio youth, William Holmes McGuffey, son of a Scotch-Irish Indian fighter from Pennsylvania, never set eyes on the two books which were the Eclectic Readers' precursors-the didactic Webster Blue Back Speller and the holy, fearsome New England Primer. He worked on his father's farm, did not go to school until he was 16. When Father McGuffey hacked a five-mile road through the forest to Youngstown, Ohio, Son William went there to study Latin with a clergyman. One day his devout mother knelt in her yard to pray that Son William might be educated...
...Eclectic Readers and the spellers, co-edited by Brother Alexander McGuffey, have sold 124,000,000 copies in the U. S., yield only to the Bible and Webster's Dictionary in circulation. The Readers spread to 37 States, reached their crest around 1880, still roll up small, steady royalties for American Book Co. which now holds the copyright. Of this wealth Author McGuffey had a modest share. He sold his copyright for $500 and 10% royalties up to $1,000. His publishers paid him a salary for supervising revisions, an annuity after the Civil...
Louisiana's Governor Richard Webster Leche, a novice tobacco-chewer, squirted a stream at a Statehouse cuspidor at Baton Rouge, was so pleased when he hit it that he remarked: "I'm going to challenge the Texans to a tobacco-spitting contest...
...present system and are for a workers' democracy, it is again a cowardly compromise with Bolshevism, for they would rather have used the phrase 'dictatorship of the pro letariat' if they had dared." Weakest faction was the Left's Centre, led by Mayor Daniel Webster Hoan of Milwaukee, whose chief desire was for peace-in-the-party. No aid to peace was the presence at Cleveland of Earl Browder, head of the U. S. Communist party, who appeared with a polite proposal that the Communists and Socialists unite on a ticket for 1936 to be headed...