Word: earle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That caused a howl. Earl retaliated by trying to push through the once amenable Louisiana legislature a law making it easier for backwoods whites and Negroes, Long's staunchest backers, to vote. That caused even more of a howl-and if there was one thing Earl Long could not stand, it was opposition to his will. It was the beginning...
Dressed in white pajamas and bathrobe, Louisiana's fleshy, silver-haired Governor Earl Kemp Long received a visitor in Galveston's John Sealy Hospital last week. It was Galveston County Deputy Sheriff Gerald Leslie. "Well," cried Earl Long, "I'll be damned. Here's a Texas Ranger! At least I know the law is on my side. Sit down and let me talk to you, Ranger." The deputy told Long that he had come to serve a writ. Said Governor Long: "I'm glad to know you're helping me. Now, son, sit down...
...State of Texas For the Best Interest and Protection of Earl Long, A Mentally Ill Person , . . because of his mental illness is likely to cause immediate injury to himself or others if not immediately restrained . . . It is therefore ORDERED that the said EARL LONG be, and he hereby is, detained in protective custody...
...deputy left, and Earl Long, 63, stood alone in a simple white room whose window was guarded with heavy wire mesh. Outside, the corridor was kept locked at both ends, and close by, within a moment's call, were two male nurses. Earl Long, serving for the third time (1939-40, 1948-52, 1956-60) as one of the most powerful and certainly one of the most controversial Governors of any U.S. state, drifted aimlessly around, strolled up and down the corridor, babbling endlessly to himself. And back in Louisiana, thousands of men and women, those who had voted...
Life in the Shadow. The crack-up had come with unexpected fury, but Earl Long had been heading for it all his life. He was reared in the giant shadow of his brother Huey-the Kingfish, a Louisiana legend as living tyrant and assassinated martyr. Earl Long hated his place in Huey's shade. To prove himself a better man, he merely proved himself a wilder one. In his role as a man of the people, he casually cleaned between his toes at press conferences. As a political fighter, he once sank his teeth into an opponent...