Word: attorney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate, where before the election only hearty, vigorous James Noe, onetime Long lieutenant, had fought the Long machine, would now have 23 Jones supporters and independents, and only 16 Longsters. The Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, Superintendent of Education, were anti-Long. Totally destroyed in New Orleans was the Louisiana Democratic Association that Huey set up when he was getting control of the city. And out through the State's remaining 63 parishes (Louisiana equivalent of counties) the potent parish sheriffs, who bulk large in Southern rural life, were put in their place: 41 sheriffs were for Earl Long...
Victor. Nobody believed that the popularity or political acumen of Sam Houston Jones, 42, accounted for the victory. Five months ago Sam Jones was known only as a moderately prosperous Lake Charles attorney. He comes from that stretch of Southwest Louisiana that is more akin to Texas than to the Old South, where the French-speaking Acadian country of the bayous, live-oaks, sugar & rice plantations, shades off into oil and cattle country...
...port improvement fund to build up its port, and Sam Jones was stumping for Al Smith in a pro-Klan district. When Huey Long was being impeached on 19 charges, including a plot to murder a legislator, Sam Jones was working in Lake Charles as assistant district attorney. When Long was making the Legislature of Louisiana a savage parody of democratic processes, packing the courts, building the Capitol, putting in roads, trapping his opponents, calling out the troops, and boasting, "There are not many people in the United States who are smarter than I am, and none in Louisiana"-when...
...from falling down in front of her face. Fred MacMurray isn't a bad sort of a guy, especially when he is playing, as in "Remember the Night," a local boy from the Wabash country of Indiana who has made good in the big city as an assistant district attorney. The two of them together have been able to do a lot for this over-sweet litle romance; some who have seen it say it made them remember all the girls they had ever been in love with. It is pure sentiment, the triumph of unsophisticated country hospitality over city...
...Most unusual target of Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold's anti-trust prosecution...