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Just now the bushes are being agitated by one Jorge Eliecer Gaitan, also known as El Negro (the Dark One), and "Captain of the People." Gaitan is a dapper, black-haired demagogue modeled somewhat along the lines of Louisiana's late Huey Long...
Louisiana State University lost its president last week, but there were few if any cries of "Stick with us, Bill." Under Huey Long, L.S.U. had grown big and rich (Huey built it up to get even with Tulane for refusing him an honorary degree). Under William Bass Hatcher, appointed L.S.U. president in 1944 by Huey's political heirs, L.S.U. had lost some of its glories...
...bubble gum, telephones and two-pants suits, and even hired college athletes from Pittsburgh. But there was still a South the rest of the U.S. could not quite understand. That South loved buffoons, corny oratory and the smell of violence; its prophets were demagogues like "Tom Tom" Heflin, Huey Long, Senator Bilbo and the late governor-elect of Georgia, turkey-necked "Old Gene" Talmadge. Last week it got a new one-at least temporarily. Old Gene's heavy-lidded, 33-year-old son Herman (pronounced Hummon) claimed that he was now the governor of Georgia...
...Potomac. Political interference with academic freedom has invariably been a curse of the very States whose autonomy Dr. Snavely so vigorously defends. The most outrageous scandals of the past decade have occurred in the State Universities of Louisiana, Georgia, and Texas, under the aegis of such luminaries as Huey Long and Eugene Talmadge...
Thus, three weeks before he was to "have supplanted Governor Ellis Arnall in office, the controversial career of Georgia's "Wild Man from Sugar Creek" came to its end. No contemporary politicians except Louisiana's Huey Long and Mississippi's Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo had appealed so successfully to ignorance and bigotry. Gene Talmadge had been vehemently for keeping "the nigger" in his place. He had opposed high wages and labor unions, and had taken a dim view of education for the masses...