Word: run-off
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First of all, the tune originated at the Savoy in New York where it was used as a run-off lick--that meaning the phrase used to warn customers that the particular set of tunes is over and to warn the band to come back on the stand. Hawkins took the thing, patterned it after some of the old Lunceford originals and recorded it for Bluebird...
...Among the head men of the Maestri machine (which once was Huey Long's), only Maestri himself and Huey's loud little brother, Governor Earl Long, were left untouched. And Earl was not much company. He was busy trying to convince Louisiana voters, just before a Democratic run-off primary this week, that that smell of corruption in the air was no reason to turn him out of the governorship and install Lawyer Sam Houston Jones...
...stands, the constitution states that there must be a primary Freshman election on the fourth Tuesday in March, and the run-off on the fourth Thursday in March...
Nobody doubted that No. 2 man, Sam Houston Jones, 42, log-cabin-born lawyer from growing Lake Charles (pop. 15,791) in West Louisiana, had a good chance in the run-off next month. A medium-sized, moderately colorless, moderately prosperous small-town ex-assistant prosecutor of unquestioned honesty, Sam Jones's greatest appeal lay in his name. Driving through the Louisiana countryside, motorists reported a warm grass-roots emotion at seeing signs that asserted with quiet dignity: This Is a Sam Jones Town. They felt that a politician named Sam Jones might travel...
Last week came the run-off Democratic primary for the Governorship. Once more the lineups were twisted unbelievably. Now Pat Harrison was supporting Mike Conner, a man he had denounced up and down the State in 1936. Now "The Man" Bilbo was supporting Paul Burney Johnson, whom he had denounced sporadically ever since 1918, when Johnson whipped him in a race for a House seat. Governor White laid off, laid cables for 1940 when he wants Bilbo's Senate seat...