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While dignified Secretary St. Laurent bored listeners with scholarly discussions, Duplessis ranted like Huey Long. While the Liberals spent around $500,000, the Union Nationale ladled out at least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: QUEBEC: Gosh, That Maurice! | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

...Arkansas' Hattie Caraway first came to the Senate by appointment, to fill the term of her deceased husband. She was elected for full terms in 1932 and 1938 with the help of the Huey Long machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MAINE: A Yard of Pump Water | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

...Jimmy Moran, New Orleans restaurateur and onetime Huey Long bodyguard, who likes diamonds, added a new item to his wardrobe-trousers with a diamond-studded zipper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Jun. 14, 1948 | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

...second Louisiana Hayride hit the road last week. Earl Long picked up Brother Huey's bullwhip and laid it manfully across the backs of his submissive legislators. In the driver's seat with him was the Kingfish's 29-year-old son, Russell. Governor Earl and nephew Russell were fixing to make hay just like Huey used to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Just Like Huey | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

Died. John Holmes Overton, 72, U.S. Senator from Louisiana since 1933, creature of the late Huey Long, but no fellow traveler of Huey's brother, Earl, the new governor of Louisiana ; after an abdominal operation; in Bethesda, Md. Senator Overton distinguished himself chiefly by plugging ceaselessly for flood control and against daylight saving time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 24, 1948 | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

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