Huey Long’s Dictatorship Reaches Peak in Louisiana
In New Orleans on January 9, 193 ... 33 new laws take effect giving Long’s machine broad powers over schools police fire and tax. Federal injunction blocks plans for the city water board seizure and East Baton Rouge resists new parish control. A mass meeting forms to oppose the “cancerous growth of dictatorship.”
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Huey Long
Congress
New Orleans
East Baton Rouge
O. K. Allen
Long
Square
Baton Rouge
Ernest Bourgeois
Louisiana
Washington
Roosevelt
T. Semmes Walmsley
East Baton Rouge Parish
R. L. Petit
Allen
Iew
Bourgeois
Allred Frees Man Arrested After Threat Scare
Governor elect James V. Allred orders clemency for a Taylor resident detained en route to Austin after drunken threats against him. The man, found with a gun in Round Rock, paid a small fine, slept it off, and left for Taylor expressing relief at the new governor.
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Austin
U.P
James V. Allred
Taylor
Round Rock
Walter Hale
Jimmie Allred
Texas Press Association Sets Midwinter Meeting in Austin
The Texas Press Association will hold its mid winter meeting in Austin on February 8 and 9. Gov. James V. Allred and Claude Teer will be principal speakers. Program committee members include Sam C. Holloway Roy H. Richols and Sam P. Harben. The association has more than 500 members.
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Dallas
U.P
Texas Press Association
Austin
James V. Allred
Claude Teer
State Board of Control
Sam C. Holloway
Deport Times
Roy H. Richols
Vernon Daily Record
Sam P. Harben
The
Gamblin Babe Given Final Burial Rites
Funeral services for Billie Louise Gamblin infant daughter of Mr and Mrs A E Gamblin 905 Buchanan Street were held at 11 this morning at the family home Rev J D Horton of Pierce Street Baptist Church officiated and burial followed at Llano Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Billie Louise Gamblin
A. E. Gamblin
Buchanan Street
J. D. Horton
Pierce Street Baptist Church
Llano Cemetery
Blackburn- Shaw
Burlew and Glavis Draw Fire From Roosevelts
Washington story details strong White House concern over Ebert Burlew and Louis Glavis. The two Ickes loyalists are accused of obstructing New Deal aims in Interior, PWA, and education. Roosevelt Wallace and Farley press for changes while Ickes resists.
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Rodney Dutcher
Globe Washington
Washington
Jan
Burlew
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Ebert K. Burlew
Harold Ickes
Wallace
Farley
Glavis
Louis R. Glavis
Ickes
America
White House
PWA
Oil Administration
Office of Education
Barlew
Harry Hopkins
Gravis
Reedsville
Roosevelt
Civil Service
Alfonso to grant royal children 25000 yearly on wedding
Paris Jan 9 Former King Alfonso of Spain plans to give Prince Jaime and Princess Beatriz 25000 dollars annually on their wedding days. Queen Victoria seeks a legal separation to protect her property as negotiations and annulment talks falter amid royal strains.
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Alfonso
Paris
Spain
Victoria
Prince Jaime
Infanta Beatriz
Beatriz
Alessandro Torlonia
Rome
Farm Loan Men Reelect Officers at Amarillo Meeting
The Amarillo National Farm Loan Association re elected all current officers at its annual meeting of directors and stockholders held at the courthouse. E. E. Adams remains president with Dan Pavillard as vice president and Mrs. Noble Paulk Frank Raef and J. M. Neely as directors. Neely serves as secretary treasurer. Remarks were given by W. H. Fuqua Amarillo banker F. T. Collins Houston Land Bank representative and G. T. Oliver rancher and farmer.
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Amarillo National Farm Loan Association
Federal Land Bank
Houston
E. E. Adams
Dan Pavillard
Noble Paulk
Frank Raef
J. M. Neely
Neely
W. H. Fuqua
Amarillo
F. T. Collins
Houston Land Bank
G. T. Oliver
Mr. Neely
Student Clifford Schaffer Dies From Car Crash Injuries
Clifford Schaffer a 17 year old high school student died in a Houston hospital from injuries suffered in an automobile accident four days earlier. The lengthy report notes medical details about rapid breathing due to inability to perspire.
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Houston
U.P
Clifford Schaffer
Carter's Little Liver Pills Claim to Restore Digestion
An advertisement extols Carter's Little Liver Pills as a cure for sourness and low energy caused by sluggish liver bile. It warns against salts and laxatives and touts the pills as gentle vegetable extracts that stimulate bile flow, with a 25-cent price and the 1931 copyright.
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Carter
C. M. Co
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Allred
Texas Press Group
Tekes
Roosevelts
Interior
Liberals
Interior Department
NEA Service, Inc
Tri-Way Garage
Pierce ST
Charles “Cowboy” Weston
Paramount Recreation Club
Oliver Eakle
Aros
Hirschmayr Tailore
College
Polk Street
Conoco
Continental Oil Company
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