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Last week a statue of Huey Long was unveiled in Statuary Hall in the Capitol. His statue, a hideous bronze, did not seem so much out of place as might have been supposed. The Hall, a ghostly place with mysterious acoustics, is a majestic marble democracy wherein the modest statues of the truly great are crowded out by the effigies of such comparative unknowns as Uriah Rose of Arkansas. George Shoup of Idaho. At night, rats squeak and gibber around the bases of the monuments...
This was the company that Huey joined. The Marine Band played solemnly in the warm afternoon. Two-by-two, 18 Senators marched to the velvet-roped enclosure where Huey's statue, concealed behind a flag, stood in its place between William Jennings Bryan and "Old Bob" La Follette. About 250 spectators, mostly tourists passing through, stopped to see what was going...
...speeches went quickly, mostly the dutiful words of politicians, some old-fashioned quavering oratory by Huey's friends, through which signs of genuine emotion showed faintly. Old Senator Norris brooded sadly and in silence. Bumbling Alben Barkley talked on & on about other things, until it seemed he was not going to mention Huey at all, finally got around to Huey's courage and prowess in debate, ended with a roar: "Friend and foe alike denounced the way he was taken away!" It was a painful show. The backwoods followers of the Kingfish who still loved him could find...
...long list of longtime American Presidents seeking still longer terms last month was added the name of Haiti's President Stenio Vincent. For eleven years Stenio Vincent had managed Haiti much as the late Huey Long managed Louisiana, sometimes sending to his Chamber of hand-picked Deputies bills in sealed envelopes, which they passed without breaking the seals. So it was a simple matter to have the Chamber vote him indispensable to Haiti for another five years (TIME, March 24). But then President Vincent ran into trouble. Haiti's Constitution required the third-term resolution to be submitted...
...regeneration of the world"). She finds equally quixotic the present-day Filipino hope for coexistent 1) independence, 2) protection by the Asiatic Fleet, 3) free trade with the U. S., 4) exit from the international scene. For President Manuel Quezon-a sort of hothouse hybrid between Jimmy Walker and Huey Long-she has little respect. And toward American colonists she is passionately irreverent. "They build for themselves a barricaded American life wherever they are. They insulate themselves as thoroughly as possible against the life of the country they are in. They are rich in a country of poor people. . . . They...