Word: governor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hardy Ivy had his cabin, and where an engineer named A. H. Brisbane chose to drive a stake. Because the stake marked the end of the new Western & Atlantic Railroad, the town-to-be was called Terminus. By 1843 Terminus had ten families and one more railroad, and Governor Wilson Lumpkin had a daughter named Martha. So Terminus became Marthasville, and Statesman John C. Calhoun in 1845 saw what was to come: "Such is the formation of the country between the Mississippi Valley and the Southern Atlantic coast . . . that all the railroads which have been projected or commenced . . . must necessarily...
...Third Termites were added two Oklahomans-Senator Josh Lee and former Governor Martin Edwin Trapp; also Ambassador to Belgium Joseph E. Davies...
Last week Huey's feud against "lyin' newspapers" (still carried on by Brother Earl Kemp Long, now running to succeed himself as Governor) exploded in a court order for contempt proceedings against the New Orleans Item-the same Item that once offered Huey a job. Marshall Ballard's paper got in trouble when it used some ugly words in connection with some of Long's followers. But the Item was only saying openly what other New Orleans papers have said by implication for years...
Publisher of the States (and of three other Louisiana papers) was the late Colonel Robert Ewing, a rich, mustachioed, onetime telegraph operator. In 1928 Colonel Ewing supported Huey Long for Governor, and Long won. On the day of Long's inauguration a messenger brought him a note from Colonel Ewing, asking him to add a line or two to his speech. Standing on the steps of the old State House, Huey read it, muttered "- -!'' and tore...
...Metairie with a photographer went Meigs Frost. They crawled through weeds and bushes on a neighboring lot, snapped pictures of a university truck delivering millwork. The house was for a close friend of Governor Richard Webster Leche. Two days later, after poring over deeds and checking facts, the States broke Reporter Frost's front-page story. Next day the Times-Picayune followed suit. Fortnight later, Governor Leche resigned, and his Lieutenant Governor, Huey's brother Earl Long, took his place...