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Nevada's grizzled, barrel-shaped Senator Pat McCarran went on the warpath last week for the umptieth time in his ten-year career of hatcheting the New Deal. (As far back as 1934 the maverick Pat used to hunt with Huey Long on the President's trail.) This time Pat McCarran was after the bald scalp of birdlike Attorney General Francis Biddle...
...until later: history (famous stories, biographies, national holidays), nature study, picture study (famous paintings). Second-year pupils get geography, science (animals without backbones). In the fifth year comes physics out of a text (What Makes the Wheels Go Round) by a Calvert teacher, Lieut. Colonel Edward G. Huey, who is now in England...
Music lovers chose the Governor of Louisiana last week. The choice was a blow-1) to the remnants of the Huey Long machine, 2) for music...
...Longsters asked Louisiana to return to "the liberal government of the late Huey P. Long." Jimmie Davis campaigned mostly by plugging his own sad ballads, moving around the state with his five-man hillbilly band, usually talking less than ten minutes before he went into his act. He sang and moved on, and the Bayou citizens remembered the music and something about low taxes...
...movie palace went bust, the receivers appointed Cullman to run it. Within the first year, using a fire-sale technique, he swung it over from a $4,000 weekly loss to a $6,500 weekly profit. He slashed admission prices, sponsored fashion shows, gave away roses, tried to book Huey Long. Five years after Cullman started running it, the Roxy-handsomely solvent - was sold to 20th Century...