STOCK EXCHANGE NEWS.
Date: 07 August 1927
Edwin Edwards Birthday, Date of Birth
Edwin Washington Edwards (August 7, 1927 – July 12, 2021) was an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Louisiana's 7th congressional district from 1965 to 1972 and as the 50th governor of Louisiana for four terms (1972–1980, 1984–1988, and 1992–1996). A member of the Democratic Party, he served twice as many elected terms as any other Louisiana chief executive. He served a total of almost 16 years in gubernatorial office, which at 5,784 days is the sixth-longest such tenure in post-Constitutional U.S. history.
An influential figure in Louisiana politics, Edwards, who was dubbed the "very last of the line of New Deal Southern Democrats", was long dogged by charges of corruption. In 2001, he was found guilty of racketeering charges and sentenced to ten years in federal prison. Edwards began serving his sentence in October 2002 in Fort Worth, Texas, and was later transferred to the federal facility in Oakdale, Louisiana. He was released from federal prison in January 2011, having served eight years. He was also considered to be the last remnant of the political machine founded and led by Huey Long and Earl Long to serve as governor.
In 2014, Edwards again sought election to the U.S. House of Representatives, running to represent Louisiana's 6th congressional district. He placed first in the jungle primary, but was defeated by Republican Garret Graves by nearly 25 percentage points in the runoff election, assumed to be a sign of Edwards' precipitous decline in popularity due to his felony conviction, as well as the Republican Party of Louisiana's growing dominance over state politics.
Read more...- Birthday, Date of Birth
- Sunday, August 7, 1927
- Place of Birth
- Marksville
- Age
- 98
- Star Sign
- ♌
The August 7, 1927 was a Sunday under the star sign of ♌. It was the 218 day of the year. President of the United States was Calvin Coolidge.
If you were born on this day, you are 98 years old. Your last birthday was on the Thursday, August 7, 2025, 287 days ago. Your next birthday is on Friday, August 7, 2026, in 77 days. You have lived for 36,082 days, or about 865,981 hours, or about 51,958,866 minutes, or about 3,117,531,960 seconds.
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7th of August 1927 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on August 7, 1927
PRAISES MANNING SERMON.; Catholic News Commends Bishop's Paris Divorce Attack.
Date: 07 August 1927
Ed in Catholic News praising Bishop Manning's stand
NEWS OF GOLF CLUBS IN METROPOLITAN AREA
Date: 08 August 1927
The Salisbury links on Long Island will hold the centre of the golfing spotlight today when a field of over a hundred golfers engages in their annual amateur-professional four-ball tournament. While the event is regarded as a tuning-up process for the open championship which follows tomorrow and Wednesday, yet practically all the island's stars in both amateur and professional ranks will be in action.
BRIEF NOTES AND NEWS OF ART WORLD
Date: 07 August 1927
Plans for exhib at Bklyn Museum in Nov
NEWS OF GOLF CLUBS IN METROPOLITAN AREA
Date: 07 August 1927
Only four days remain for the local public linkswomen to file their entries for their annual municipal championship, which will be played this year, Aug. 15 to 19, over the Mosholu course on Jerome Avenue. Entries, including the fee of $1, must be sent to John Hadden, Secretary of the Municipal Golf Association, 360 West 123d Street.
TOPICS IN WALL STREET.; News, Comment and Incident, On the Stock Exchange and In the Financial Markets.
Date: 07 August 1927
General uncertainty as to the future trend of the stock market was reflected in yesterday's transactions on the Stock Exchange. Price movements for the most part were irregular. There was a sporadic demand for individual issues, but the urgent buying interest of the last several days was lacking.
A Prison Camp Romance.
Date: 08 August 1927
By Mordaunt Hall
Mordaunt Hall
Still another phase of the World War serves as the basic thought for "Barbed Wire," the Paramount Theatre's current feature, wherein Pola Negri and Clive Brook, who hail respectively from Poland and England, figure in the principal roles. Miss Negri appears as a French peasant girl and Mr. Brook plays the part of a German fighter. This chronicle, which is said to be based on Sir Hall Caine's novel, "The Woman of Knockaloe," published in 1923, has for its background a farm in Northern France that is turned into a prison camp for German soldiers. It is in many ways a deftly directed film, but the story might have been considerably improved by the inclusion of more detail of the lives of the military prisoners and by the exclusion of one of those melodramatic incidents, peculiar to motion pictures, which no longer come as a surprise to the spectator.Rowland V. Lee, who guided the destinies of "The Whirlwind of Youth," and Erich Pommer, who a year or so ago was the head of the Ufa company, have filmed many of the sequences most effectively, especially the earlier chapters. First there is the unalloyed happiness on a French farm (perhaps the cheer is a little exaggerated), and then follows the stunnning effect of the news that war has been declared. There is the immediate change in the countenance, the breeding of hate and anticipation of grief. It becomes a joyless community. A father, who was a veteran of the Franco-German War of 1870, is inclined to be philosophical, but after he hears of his son's reported death he is filled with hatred for the enemy. This aged man succumbs to the shock caused by the realization that his daughter, Mona (Miss Negri), has fallen in love with Oskar, one of the German prisoners. The residents of the community are enraged that Mona, the daughter of France, whose face had been smileless since the outbreak of hostilities, should have consented to become the wife of an enemy captive. After the armistice Oskar wins the favor of the neighbors through an earnest appeal from Mona's blinded brother, who was supposed to have been killed.As usual, Miss Negri handles her characterization with ease. She changes her facial expression in a remarkable manner to suit the action of this narrative. As Mona she is active, with a will to work, after war is declared, but the knowledge that war has taken her brother brings a listlessness to her eyes and a set look on her face. Clive Brook, who also appeared as a German in "East Is West," in nearly all his scenes gives a capital showing. There are one or two places where Mr. Lee has called upon Mr. Brook for an expression that is too glowering and hardly natural. Gustav von Seyffertitz, a talented character actor, plays the part of one of Mona's neighbors. Claude Gillingwater is excellent as Mona's old father.Clyde Cook supplies the comedy in this picture. He is acrobatic, and his antics elicited a good deal of laughter, but his stunts are by no means a help to the story. It is a case of dragging in comedy without considering its value to the vehicle.