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...Huey Long took Louisiana State University ("The Old War Skule") from an Army man in 1928. Ousting the University's nominal president, Colonel Campbell Blackshear ("Blackie") Hodges, then West Point Commandant of Cadets, Huey installed instead a political henchman named James Monroe Smith. L. S. U. went on a fabulous binge...
There was the instructive memory of the time Percy Sr. ran against Demagogue James K. Vardaman for the U. S. Senate. Vardaman, who looked "like a top-notch medicine man," stood for the poor white against the "nigger." "He was not a moral idiot of genius like Huey Long; he was merely an exhibitionist playing with fire." When Percy Sr. won, they tried to pin a bribery charge on him. It was quickly disproved, but the man who made the charge went on shouting the lie from every platform in Mississippi. He "was a pert little monster, glib and shameless...
...Administration had only one bad moment, at the hands of little, black-eyed jumping-jack Allen J. Ellender of Louisiana, who was a Huey Long adjutant at the time the late Kingfish, looking fondly at his henchmen, said: "I can buy & sell legislators like sacks of potatoes." Last week Senator Ellender stood ready to fight for his amendment, which would merely have added a paragraph to the effect that nothing in the measure gave the President any additional authorization to send an A. E. F. outside the Western Hemisphere, wherever that is. Many a mother-conscious Senator stood ready...
...Idle Hour Farm, who took over the old course in 1925, turned it into a show place. The Colonel built up the New Orleans Handicap purse to $50,000 - the U. S.'s richest winter stake. Those brave days lasted seven years. Then Louisiana's oafish dictator, Huey Long, decided it was time for Bradley to go. Up went the Fair Grounds' real-estate assessment to prohibitive heights, and out went the Colonel...
...Willoughby damned, but Harvard looks Pfister than ever to me while the Yale players look Talbot not so heavy," screamed Huey from his seat behind the goal line. "From the way our backs are Burnam up the field, we should Seymour scoring than we have have all year. It's o. Kaye by me if we go to Towne...