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...another quorum, but this time Huey Long did not dare leave the floor for fear of losing his speech-making prerogative. Besides, the galleries were filling up with a new crowd-Washingtonians who preferred listening to the Kingfish to watching the Shriners parade in the rain. Going to the clerk's desk Long snatched up the official list of Senators...
...rest, he asked permission to have the clerk read the Democratic platform, the Lord's Prayer. Like a cheering section, the rear-row Democrats chanted "I object." And the Kingfish had to go along on his own lungs: "I do not like to take up 15 hours' time with the galleries getting empty and nobody to listen to me. The floor is getting thin; very few Senators are here, and I hate to speak to a small crowd like this...
...Simultaneously Bob Sweitzer's doom was doubly sealed when local Democratic bigwigs meeting at the Morrison Hotel firmly decided to sacrifice one of their oldest and best votegetters on a pyre of his own I.O.U.'s to replace him with the publicly immaculate clerk of the Municipal Court...
...same destination in 1931. The King, on his own initiative, had rushed down from the royal country seat in Scotland, and it was His Majesty's pleasure that Laborite MacDonald should break with his Labor friends-the men who had raised him from a $3.25 per week clerk to be Prime Minister-and form a so-called "National Government." That master stroke has given Britain a Cabinet Conservative in fact which has carried on for nearly four years under the pretense that Mr. MacDonald, having ditched his Labor friends, yet remained a "National Laborite," and somehow represented Britain...
Meanwhile Alyce Jane McHenry continued to ride high on a prospering wave of publicity. Her mother Luella McHenry, an Omaha department store clerk, no longer has to work. Her father Paul, a Sioux City, Iowa salesman, left his job to become reconciled with her mother. Her sister Frances Jean quit school to share in the glory and excitement...