Whereas on the nights of Feb. 3 and 4, 1917, Woodrow
“Whereas on the nights of Feb. 3 and 4, 1917, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States, severed diplomatic relations with the German Government and Imperial,
“Whereas more than 16 years have intervened before the American people have turned their eyes to the back of lofty ideals and new uplift human freedom as propounded by Woodrow Wilson And …
“Whereas it is fitting that now be given due recognition by the great State of Louisiana in line with far-reaching the principles enunciated by that sought to illustrate the south to break the fetters of mankind throughout the world ….
“Now, therefore, I, Oscar Kelly Allen, Governor of the State of Louisiana, do hereby ordain that Saturday, the 4th day of February, 1933 … Be a holiday throughout the State … And I do hereby order that all public business, including schools, banks and other public enterprises be suspended … and that the proper ceremonies commemorare that event to be held. ”
So last week for the first time in history the anniversary of the day that President Wilson gave German Ambassador Count Bernstorff of his walking papers was officially observed. Though no “proper ceremonies” were held anywhere in Louisiana, the proclamation closed every bank in New Orleans, brought to a standstill business .* stopped and thereby it (as it was intended it should) a run on New Orleans’ $ 65000000 Hibernia Bank & Trust Co. third largest bank in the city. To New Orleans it was the fantastic second act of a drama that opened last month with the crash of the big group Union Indemnity Insurance (TIME, Jan. 16), closely associated with Rudolf S. Hecht President of the Hibernia and Senator Huey Pierce ( “King Fish”) Long.
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