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...corruption and graft in the Huey P. Long political machine; after a heart attack; in Angola, La. Plucked from obscurity by Huey ("[I'm] the Chief Thief for L.S.U.") Long to head his pet college, Smith helped his mentor (and Huey's political heir, ex-Gov. Richard Webster Leche) spend some $13,500,000 "improving" the university. was indicted on 40 counts, served six years (plus ten months for mail fraud). He ended in obscurity as director of vocational rehabilitation at the State Penitentiary...
...Supreme Being, the eternal and infinite Spirit, Creator and Sovereign of the universe. - Webster's International Dictionary...
...Callaghan claims that not even good radio contact can be guaranteed. Other copies are flown to subscribers like George Pinsky at Fort Resolution on Great Slave Lake in the District of Mackenzie, across the lake to Gordon D. Scram-stad in Yellowknife, and farther north to D. E. Webster in Good Hope...
Thirteen years had passed since the G. & C. Merriam Co. had published its fifth-edition Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. But Americans had not stopped talking. They had talked so much and so freely that they had kept twelve editors busy listening to all the new noises they made. Last week, with the publication of a brand-new edition ($6 and up), a lot of U.S. talk became official...
...Merriam-Webster editors started collecting words in common use right after their last edition came out. Whenever they spotted or heard a new one, they immediately filled out a "citation slip" on it. Words that didn't get enough slips (e.g., car park) were put back in the file again, perhaps for next time...