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Louisiana. On the fifth anniversary of the death of Huey Long the remnants of his dictatorial machine were all but erased. Of eight Longster Congressmen, four were beaten, two were forced into runoffs, one failed to run, only one was renominated. Victory went to the reform regime of Governor Sam Houston Jones, whose favorite candidate, robust, balding Felix Edward Hebert (pronounced E'-bare), won the Democratic nomination (tantamount to election) to Congress in the First District in a walk. Son of full-blooded Cajun parents, Nominee Hebert was city editor of the New Orleans States last summer when...
...speeches were orations, models of polysyllabic splendor. He described himself as a "veritable peripatetic bifurcated volcano in behalf of the principles of my party." But meatily between the thick-hunked verbiage were sandwiched slices of wit and wisdom. He was one man who dared to tackle rough-&-tumble Huey Long in debate on the Senate floor. He left the Kingfish lacerated, pop-mouthed, speechless...
...approved peacetime conscription, but the bill provided the biggest burst of fireworks in 1940's Presidential campaign. Morning of the final day, Georgia's smooth-faced Senator Russell popped up with an amendment jointly sponsored by Lousiana's Senator Overton, ardent New Dealer and onetime Huey Long ally: ". . . Whenever the Secretary of War or the Secretary of the Navy determines that any existing manufacturing plant or facility is necessary for the national defense and is unable to arrive at an agreement with the owner of such plant or facility for its use or operation . . . the Secretary, under...
...Japanese Fascists began to burn the cities of Spain and China, Author Mumford blew up with a pop heard round the publishing world. In Men Must Act he demanded complete severance of U. S. diplomatic relations with, complete boycott of, Germany, Italy, Japan. He praised the assassination of Huey Long as a political stitch in time. When New Republicans stirred with embarrassment, but declined to get down from the left end of the liberal fence, Author Mumford loudly parted company with The New Republic...
When the yelling had quieted down, Truman had beaten Stark by 8,000 votes, with Milligan a poor third, and Missouri voters found to their dismay that, in a year when Louisiana had kicked out the remnants of the Huey Long machine, they had voted to restore Pendergastery. Old Tom Pendergast was out of Leavenworth on probation, and under the lee of Mayor Bernard Dickmann's St. Louis machine the Pendergasters in Kansas City could now mend their battered breeches. No one believed that Republican Candidate Manuel A. Davis would be strong enough to beat Truman in November...