Word: earls
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Ignoring the caterwauling protests of Governor Earl Long, the Louisiana house of representatives last week left ol' Earl's incendiary tax proposals (TIME, July 2) in ruins. Rejected by the legislators: Long-backed measures to boost state levies on sulphur, natural gas and pari-mutuel betting. Scheduled for similar treatment: an administration bill increasing taxes on timber and pulp...
...waving, name-calling harangue. He fumed about influence-peddling under the Capitol roof and roundly lashed such former allies as his ex-law partner, Clem Sehrt of New Orleans, and Leander H. Perez, the powerful political boss and district attorney of Plaquemines and St. Bernard parishes. Said Earl of Perez (who once played a key role in saving Huey from impeachment): "He would like to be dictator and custodian of all human rights, races and creeds...
...Damnedest Farce." Even in the Land of Long, accustomed to taking its politics raw, Earl's antics have turned faces red. Representative Peter Murtes of New Orleans described one legislative fracas as "the damnedest farce I have ever seen," suggested that if the members were to continue to ignore their own rules "every time Earl Long doesn't like the way things are going," they should "go home and let him vote...
...with it all, there is a distinct dissimilarity between the performances of Earl and Huey as governors of Louisiana: what Huey wanted, Huey got; what Earl wants has begun to evade him with increasing frequency. Fortunately for Louisiana, Earl's predecessor, Governor Robert F. Kennon, led a successful campaign to amend the constitution so that a two-thirds legislative majority is now needed for all tax boosts, hence most of Earl's paralyzing tax increases seem doomed to defeat. But that does not mean that Earl will give up. When, after the hard-won reconsideration, his pari-mutuel...
...little wearily, Earl Long admitted one day last week that "during the campaign I said I still had the snap in my garters. Now some of it has snapped out." But lest anyone think that means he isn't going to be around for a long time to come, he grinned and added: "I'm the last of the red-hot poppas in Louisiana politics, just like Sophie Tucker is the last of the red-hot mommas...