Word: earls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Feuding Man. Earl broke with Huey, spoke of him publicly as a "big-bellied coward" and set out to oppose him. It was like trying to stop a locomotive by lying across the tracks. In 1932, when Huey went about setting up his puppet governor -one O. K. Allen, a Winnfield sawmill operator who had once lent him $500-Earl ran for lieutenant governor on the opposing ticket, and was soundly licked...
...Earl was a feuding man. The next year, when the U.S. Senate investigated charges of fraud in the Louisiana senatorial primary, Earl hurried to testify against Huey. The brothers faced each other for hours, faces distorted, arms flailing. Earl testified that Huey had told him that a man named Abell (H. C. Abell, New York representative of Electric Bond & Share Co.) had "given him $10,000 and Huey was sort of afraid to use it for fear it was marked...
...Listen to that," screamed Huey. "Liar Earl Long...
...make a liar out of me," yelled Earl. "I stood with you as long as I could, but you run wild...
...triumph for Earl-but only a political mosquito bite to the Kingfish. Huey went on about his frenetic business. Earl was all but forgotten...