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Thus ended the reign of the most high-handed, lowbrowed local dictator that U.S. politics has known since the days of the late Huey Long. Posing as a great man suffering for the common people (although his campaigns were financed by reactionary moneybags who liked his low-tax policy). Gene Talmadge had pulled strings and lopped the heads of Georgia politicos for 15 years...
...months Michigan Republicans had feared that the G.O.P. nomination for U.S. Senator might go to rabble-rousing Gerald L. K. Smith, onetime Huey Long lieutenant. But last week Judge Homer Ferguson, a great & good citizen, finished the job of cleaning out Detroit's rackets and allowed himself to be drafted...
Boob-Thumper. Those who were surprised by Gerald Smith's audacious bid for the nomination do not know Gerald Smith. Huey Long called him a better rabble-rouser than himself, a tribute which pleased Gerald Smith as much as H. L. Mencken's appraisal of him as the "champion boob-thumper of all epochs...
...late Huey Long, who blathered about a Government-financed college education for everybody, might have stood up in Congress and crowed if he had been alive last week. Congress created the first U.S. college scholarships...
Died. Major Thomas Semmes Walmsley, 53, onetime mayor of New Orleans (1930-36), bitter foe of the late Huey Long, whose State machine impoverished New Orleans and stripped Walmsley of most of his powers; of a heart attack; at Randolph Field, Tex. At one time, during the Congressional primaries of 1934, Walmsley's police and Long's State troopers faced each other with loaded guns. Walmsley resigned in the middle of his second term (the year after the "Kingfish's" death), as he had promised to do if the legislature restored home rule to his city...