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Then the big C.I.O labor unions were heard from. The powerful Amalgamated Clothing Workers, which, under the late Sidney Hillman, was the bulwark of New York's American Labor Party (and still is), said it wanted no part of a third party. So did gravel-voiced Joe Curran, president of the National Maritime Union...
...done, Giuseppe would drive his steam roller around to his shack, and putter about, oiling and cleaning it. Sometimes at work Giuseppe would set the huge machine rolling and get down in the road to stare at it as it marched on alone, slowly and steadily crushing the gravel beneath its bland power...
...familiar voices raised against him. One rival candidate is Congressman Jimmy Morrison (no kin to Chep), who stands for things with a demagogic Huey Longish ring: more four-lane highways, $50-a-month pensions for the old folks. Another candidate is Earl Long himself, who was shouting in a gravel voice that nobody never proved nothin' crooked about Earl K. Long, the White Knight of the poor folks. He will probably finish close enough to Jones in the primaries to require a runoff...
With the gradual passing of such clowns and demagogues as Theodore Bilbo, John Rankin, Eugene Talmadge, there was reason to believe that political responsibility was growing in the South. But the very sound of Earl Long's gravel voice was enough to cause the city's heart to skip a beat. So Sam Jones's fight was also Chep Morrison's fight...
...projected field has been recently resurfaced with a cinder and gravel coating, and would be able to handle a maximum of 1250 cars, far more than any conceivable demand. Only disadvantage would be its distance from the Houses, which would be at least a quarter of a mile...