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...Anglophobes. The Stettinius statement also gave aid & comfort to those in the U.S. who practice a secondary form of isolationism: Anglophobia. In the Senate, up rose Louisiana's stocky, curly haired Allen J. Ellender, a graduate of the Huey Long school of Tommy-gun politics, now turned world statesman. Cried...
...Morterfication," cried veteran Hu Flung Huey oeC, Schmidten with momentary forchodings, "it can't be worse than Fritts. PT says they'll torpedo us, but they'll have to Shew me. I Thom my nose at Secrest of them who aims to Pierce John's smirchless line. Vicario ball through the devil's Zoeller stairs. Navin can stop us. We're not Cowen...
...alarmed. Huey Long, Bilbo and Boss Crump managed without grand opera; and grand opera north of the Mason & Dixon Line manages without Hague, Pendergast and Curley...
...choral lilt of When the Boys Come Home, the solemn gaiety of Sunday in Cicero Falls (a big spectacle number), the romantic fooling of Evelina, the dusky The Eagle and Me, the warm balladry of I Got a Song (put over with a bang by huge black Richard Huey...
...famed for his sharp nose and waspish tongue in Senate investigations. These were flood control, safety in commercial aviation and legislation against lobbies. At his death in 1931, Arkansas politicians could not agree on a successor; Mrs. Caraway was appointed to her husband's office. The next year Huey Long, eager to extend his political domain, brought his sound trucks into Arkansas and helped "the poor little widow lady" to become the first woman elected a U.S. Senator.* Thereafter, Huey Long could usually count on Senator Caraway's vote. In 1938, without Long, she squeezed...