Word: governors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...governor of Louisiana, swaggering, shifty-eyed Earl Kemp Long has hardly been able to spit, scratch or take off his shoes without rousing a disconcerting ghost. During his 3½ months in office the legend of his brother Huey has dominated and overshadowed him almost as thoroughly as the live Kingfish did during the noisy years of the Great Louisiana Hayride...
Huey's roads, Huey's bridges, Huey's schools and Huey's friends & enemies are everywhere that Earl goes. Earl works in Huey's 34-story skyscraper capitol and lives in Huey's governor's mansion-an imitation White House which the Kingfish erected in Baton Rouge so he would "feel at home" when he became President. Back-parish voters eye Earl beadily to see that he acts "like Huey would have wanted...
...times it is almost more than Earl can bear. At a press conference held shortly after he was elected governor he cried: "Huey couldn't have been elected dogcatcher without my help . . ." But these honest outbursts of rage & envy have been infrequent. Earl has aped his brother with the beetle-browed assiduousness of a vaudeville baboon learning to roller-skate; he rubs himself with the legend of Huey's greatness like a voodoo worshiper using "Fast Dice...
...they did not capture Texas. In an attempt to get their candidates on the ballot they took full-page newspaper advertisements, pleaded that the whole Democrat-Dixiecrat problem be presented to the voters in a referendum. The Texas State Central Committee, dominated by Governor Beauford Jester, refused. The Dixiecrats still had hope-though their chances looked slim, they were hell-bent to get control of the Texas State Democratic Convention next month...
...whom Christians believe is . . . not merely the Creator, the Lawgiver, the wise and righteous Moral Governor, but something far more wonderful: He is the One who gives us what He demands of us, provides the obedience that He requires . . . But the whole experience of this . . . has come into our lives through . . . Jesus Christ. . . the one life which was wholly divine and wholly human...