Word: earls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sure, I want to be governor," bellowed Louisiana's greying, gravel-voiced Earl Long. "Only one person in more'n two million people can be governor of this state. Think about that. Ain't that an honor? And then every time you go to the door of the mansion somebody's bringing you a turkey or a ham or a basket of something. I like that free stuff...
...found him irresistible. In last week's run-off election, Louisiana gave him the greatest vote ever polled by one candidate-with 44 of 1,878 precincts still to be counted, his total was 422,766. Sam Houston ("Sad Sam") Jones, the "good government" candidate who had beaten Earl for the governorship in 1940 and broken the back of the old Huey Long machine, got only...
...heard the news, Earl cried: "Happy days are here again and the Longs are back in the saddle. We'll improve on everything Huey did." Of his eight-year eclipse by the forces of "good government" he said: "I think maybe the Lord decided I could make a better governor at 52 than...
...Rouge. He wanted to prepare for the legislature; he had 3,000 jobs to hand out. The biggest, that of executive assistant, would probably go to Huey's curly-haired, blunt-nosed son Russell Long, a 29-year-old lawyer who wants to be governor too, some day. Earl also swore that he would keep his campaign promises (among them: free school lunches, $50-a-month old-age pensions, and bonuses for veterans), which the New Orleans States estimated would cost the state no less than a billion dollars...
...When I go into office," Earl promised, "I'm going to have an inaugural party for anybody who wants to come. When they arrive we'll just add another plate to the table, and tell them to come on in-we'll give them all the soda pop and hot dogs and buttermilk they want ... if I have to kill every hawg I can raise...