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Earl has absolute control over more than 40 state boards, departments and commissions. He holds the liquor industry under his thumb by means of a board with vast regulatory powers. He can influence Louisiana's $204 million oil industry, its $14 million sulphur industry, its $112 million lumber industry...
Last year Earl-who had been patiently raising cattle in Winn Parish and mending political fences-set boldly out to get the governorship again. He talked an oil millionaire named William C. Feazel into backing him. (After election he sent Feazel to the Senate to fill the late Senator John...
Nature Boy. Unlike Marse Henry Watterson and his famous "to hell with the Hapsburgs and Hohenzollerns," Wallace has never been known for outspoken editorials on politics. But no one ever doubted where Uncle Tom stood on conservation, good will toward Latin America, snakes (he was a live-&-let-live man...
The domestic planks were cut pretty much to the policies of Robert Taft. The party reasserted its belief in "minimum" government controls and in the U.S. competitive system, the "mainspring of material well-being and political freedom." At the same time Republicans pledged themselves to protect "both workers and employers...
Like most candidates. Duff campaigned on the time-honored issues of conservation, public health and education. But unlike many, Duff meant what he said. He toured 45,000 miles of the state in his automobile and was swept into office by more than 550,000 votes.