Word: rednecked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Back in 1911 a tousle-haired, 18-year-old country boy named Huey Long, from the "redneck" hills of Louisiana's Winn Parish, walked into the dingy Union Street office of the New Orleans Item one day and asked for a job. Said Marshall Ballard, editor of the Item then & now: "I'll give you $10 a week." Said Huey, grinning as he walked out : "That's not enough. Keep your eye on me-I'm going places...
Eugene Octave Sykes belongs to one of the few aristocratic Mississippi families which, curiously, has always added its support to the "redneck" Bilbo following. When he was Mississippi's Governor in 1916, The Man Bilbo appointed Eugene Sykes a justice of the State Supreme Court, successfully supported him for election when his appointive term expired. Going into eclipse with his patron, Judge Sykes was rescued therefrom in 1927 by Mississippi's Senator Hubert Durrett Stephens, who got him an appointment to the Federal Radio Commission. When the Radio Commission became the Communications Commission last June, Judge Sykes...