Word: louisiana
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Orleans, Louisiana State upset Tulane, 21-0, and won an invitation to meet unbeaten, untied Oklahoma in the Sugar Bowl...
...Bell had his first look at some of Costello's operations (slot machines and Louisiana's Beverly Country Club) while working on TIME'S cover story on New Orleans' Mayor "Chep" Morrison in November, 1947. Some months ago, when he began working on the Costello cover in earnest, Bell first went to the law enforcement agencies in Washington and New York. Then, armed with what the law knew about Costello, he set out on his own in the gambler's backyard: New York City. At first it was very frustrating. Costello sources did not want...
Helpful Huey. It was not the end of the slot-machine king. Costello had cultivated Senator Huey Long of Louisiana, a man he suspected of having liberal views on certain types of financial matters. The friendship paid off. Within a few months, Huey had granted Costello and Kastel a concession to operate their slots in Louisiana, and a new river of nickels began jingling into their coffers...
...partners bedded down happily with Huey's heirs and remained in business. It was an ideal arrangement for Frank Costello, who had put up only $15,000; he stayed in New York City and just let the money roll in. One year, they grossed $1,297,580. The Louisiana venture was still an ideal arrangement last week even though slot machines are illegal in Louisiana and Reform Mayor Chep Morrison had chased them out of New Orleans...
Soon President Truman was throwing bricks at his favorite targets-the 80th Congress, the "privileged few," the "vested interests." He recalled that Minnesota had been carved out of Thomas Jefferson's boldly expensive Louisiana Purchase, which he likened to his own plan of expansion: the Fair Deal. Cried Truman: "There are people who contend that these programs will cost too much, just as the reactionaries in Jefferson's day contended that $15 million was too much to pay for a million square miles of new territory. They were wrong in Jefferson's time, and they...