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| North America:The twenty sixth Democratic national convention meets in Chicago to nominate Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The twentieth Republican national convention meets in Chicago to nominate Herbert Hoover. |
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O. K. Allen, the chosen successor to Huey P. Long, becomes Governor of Louisiana.
Sebastian Mandina turns his bar on Canal street into a restaurant. |
Huey Long helps Senator Hattie Caraway retain her senate seat.. A year after Long had assumed his own senate seat, he goes on the stump for the ³the little woman² from Arkansas who had been elevated to the Senate when her husband Senator Thaddeus Caraway had died in November of 1931. Caraway took 61 of the stateÖs 75 counties and her popular vote equaled the sum of her six opponents. She won again six years later without LongÖs help, but her steam ran out as she finished fourth in 1944. | Demolitions are prohibited in the French Quarter. The last run of the Pontchartrain Railroad known as ³Smokey Mary² in 1932 The old line has been in existence for 101 years, the last 52 under the management of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. | Louis Armstrong, while touring Europe for the first time, is unwittingly dubbed ³Satchmo² by P. Mathison Brooks, editor of LondonÖs Melody Maker. His previous nickname had been ³Satchelmouth². | Port Sulphur, in Plaquemines Parish is the hub of the Louisiana sulfur industry. Built in 1932-33 by Freeport Sulphur Company to logistically support Grande Ecaille mine, worlds second largest Frasch sulfur mine. It was located in Lake Washington, 10 miles to the Southwest. |
Louisianian Olympians in Los Angeles: Eddie Flynn, gold, boxing; Gilbert T. Gray, gold, yachting; Emmett Toppino, gold, 400-meter relay; Glenn Hardin, silver, 400-meter hurdles. |
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