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When prospering, arthritic Dick Leche found it wise to quit last week and turn over the Governorship to Huey's brother, Earl (TIME, July 3), James Monroe Smith was nowhere in sight, someone having seen to it that he had plenty of time to vanish after he resigned. By the week-end the man whom L. S. U. students publicly derided as JIMMY THE STOOGE had become a peril to the whole post-Huey machine in Louisiana, and particularly to Earl Long's hopes of being elected Governor in his own right next year...
...officer could go along if both Dr. & Mrs Smith were to be returned in it. Sheriff N. H. De Bretton at Baton Rouge demanded the honor for one of his men. "Not in the State's airplane," rejoined General Louis Guerre of the State Police. At this juncture Earl Long settled the row: Dr. Smith should come back by plane, in custody of one State policeman, one local investigator. Mrs. Smith would follow by train, also in custody. The plane flew to Brockville, flew back again without Dr. Smith when he refused to be separated from his wife. Eventually...
Louisiana's second Governor Long on his first day in office put flowers on the grave of Brother Huey. Earl Long also conferred with New Orleans' Boss & Mayor Robert S. Maestri, who is the most potent politician left in Louisiana. For his motto Earl Long picked up a Biblical proverb: "Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right...
Because "serious irregularities" in the finances of Huey's beloved Louisiana State University had turned up, and its President Dr. James Monroe Smith had vanished, Governor Leche at week's end temporarily postponed his resignation, this week handed over his job to impatient Earl Long...
...Edinburgh court refused to deal with the divorce suit of the U. S.-born Duchess of Leinster. Reason: her husband, Edward Fitz-Gerald, Premier Duke, Marquess & Earl of Ireland, was not domiciled in Scotland. To prove it the court quoted from his earlier declaration: "My departure from Scotland has been really to suit my wife. She one said she could not live with blackfaced sheep and lochs and I saw a certain amount of truth in that...