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...political heritage Huey Long left behind was a set of election laws which gave absolute control to the party in power of every ballot box and polling place in Louisiana. While nobody had ever tested it, it looked as if all the "ins" had to do was pull the trigger and hang on forever. Long before last week's primary it had been decided who among the Long survivors were going to get the benefit of this election device. In view of faithful stooge service, Governor Oscar Kelly Allen was to go to Washington until January 1937 to serve...
Last week 102 out of 124 factory employes were found to be suffering from skin troubles, especially acne. Governor George Howard Earle's Secretary of Labor & Industry, Ralph M. Bashore, filed a complaint. Quicker on the trigger was Dr. Martha Edith MacBride-Dexter, Pennsylvania's potent Secretary of Health. Last week she rushed a squad of public health inspectors to York. Surgeon General Cummings,* hearing of the trouble, promised Federal help to Governor Earle who telegraphed C. F. Obermeier, manager of the factory: "I appeal to your sense of public spirit and your regard for public health...
...injured innocents. Why did M. Raoul Desbrosses, director of the Orleans municipal pawnshop, sign worthless bonds so that Stavisky might sell them? "Stavisky was desperate!" cried Defendant Desbrosses last week. "When I refused to sign, he drew a pistol, pressed it to his temple, and threatened to pull the trigger. I signed to prevent him from committing suicide and because I could not bear the scandal of having a man found shot dead in my office!" Why did the jewel expert M. Emile Farault appraise as genuine jewels some synthetic emeralds said by Stavisky to belong to a company headed...
...thought, 'I might not a got him but if I shoot him one more time I'll know I have him.' So I took both hands and I leaned over him and I took dead aim right between his eyes and I pulled the trigger. Then I saw the blood spurt and I knew I had him. Then I put my gun down in my jeans and I took out the streetcar a aimin' to go to Kentucky to my pappy's. . . . But first I had me a bite...
...miles at a cost of $160,000,000. Sprawled over three hills Aduwa was a collection of low-walled huts, some thatched, some roofed with corrugated iron, that housed some 3,000 souls. Count Ciano squinted down through his bomb sights and pulled the trigger...