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Governor-designate Earl Long, like Huey, grew up amid the piney woods of northern Louisiana, stamped by the social doctrine their father believed...
Huey got a job selling Cottolene, an oil shortening, and he hopped about from farm to farm telling stories, baking cakes, quoting the Bible, and proclaiming: "I can sell anybody anything." Earl followed, selling shoe polish, stove polish, patent medicine. When Huey moved on to study law, so did Earl; when Huey entered state politics, so did Earl...
...they could qualify as kings. Huey dispensed thousands of jobs to consolidate his power, converted the state police into a semiprivate army, and ran up the state debt from $11 million to more than $100 million. Huey called the state legislature "the finest collection of lawmakers money can buy." Earl's contribution was often to placate or scare the lawmakers, and he once did it in a clumsy way that displeased Huey. When the legislature tried to impeach Governor Huey, Earl hurled himself upon one hostile lawmaker and bit his throat. Huey thought that impolitic...
...Liar Earl Long!" In 1931 Huey moved on to serve four gaudy years in the U.S. Senate. Back home in Louisiana, however, Huey's slights and snubs, his withholding of the choicest of the plums, were beginning to pique Earl Long. One dramatic day Earl walked out on Huey, letting it be known that he, Earl, had fought Huey's childhood fistfights for him. Earl screeched, "Big-bellied coward!" Earl later confronted Huey, face distorted and arms flailing, during a U.S. Senate hearing on election fraud. When Earl intimated that Huey was susceptible to graft, Huey raged...
...September 1935 Huey was assassinated in the corridor of the State Capitol by Dr. Carl A. Weiss, on account of a family grudge. Needing a Long, however unpalatable, Huey's machine put Earl on the ticket for lieutenant governor. In 1939 Earl won promotion when Governor Leche resigned shortly before the discovery of a state mail-fraud scandal. There followed a raucous conflict be tween the Long forces and a group of reformers, out of which Earl Long emerged once more, in 1948, for the second time governor of Louisiana...