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...wonderful 14 students from Earl Warren and Downey high schools...
...Many a vice-presidential nominee has failed to swing his home state to his ticket. Examples: Illinois' Adlai E. Stevenson (grandfather of the sometime presidential candidate) in 1900, New York's Franklin Roosevelt in 1920, Iowa's Henry Wallace in 1940, California's Earl Warren in 1948, Tennessee's Estes Kefauver...
After Huey's assassination in 1935, Earl fought his way at last to the big time on his own. He became lieutenant governor under the corrupt Richard Leche, who soon went to jail with some of Huey's old henchmen, leaving Earl in the driver's seat for two years. In 1948, Earl won his first full term as governor, and proceeded to out-Huey Huey. Where once Huey had said of a legislator. "We bought him like a sack of potatoes," Earl chuckled. "I just rent 'em. It's cheaper that...
...liked to explain it: "Don't write anything you can phone, don't phone anything you can talk face to face, don't talk anything you can smile, don't smile anything you can wink, and don't wink anything you can nod." Earl wiped up a $45 million budget surplus, then went on a piratical tax spree. True to Huey's method of giving the people what they wanted while soaking them for it. he expanded welfare programs and at the same time allowed the patronage-hungry legislature to kill off the civil...
...Died. Earl Kemp Long, 65, madcap brother of Louisiana's Huey Long and a three-time Governor of the state; of a heart attack; in Alexandria, La. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...