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...Baton Rouge, Governor Long went to the radio, announced he was through with the whole fight, said he had done his best "with the salvation of the South my only motive...
...loud rap-rap-rapping on his bedroom door late one night last month awoke Louisiana's red-headed Governor Huey Pierce Long from a sound sleep in the executive mansion at Baton Rouge. He sat up, rubbed his eyes, looked at his watch. It said 1:40 a. m. He said, "Come in." And in trooped legislative clerks, secretaries, photographers, newshawks. The Governor was handed a pen and a bill just passed by the night-sitting Legislature...
Thirty years ago Harvey Dow Gibson came out of Maine, like Rudy Vallee, with an orchestra of college boys behind him. Unlike Rudy Vallee he did not become a nation-famed crooner, but last week he waved a baton for a band composed of all the great New York banking houses. And sweet was his music to the ears of depositors in seven small broken banks in and around the city. The tune said they would get an immediate payment of 50 per cent of their $42,000,000 total deposits, more later. Maestro Gibson's once precarious...
...When General O'Duffy and his faithful troops arrived (hopping the ditches), they found the Irish Republicans in command of the town, marching and countermarching in the streets, directing traffic with a flourish of their hurleys.* Inspector Neville of the Civic Guards chased out the Republicans with a baton charge...
Morning after the baton charge, the General telegraphed Dublin: EASIER ALTHOUGH A TENSE FEELING PREVAILS...