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...TIME, FOR ADMITTING THAT MUCH OF THE ESSENTIAL WORK IN LOUISIANA WAS UNDONE BEFORE HUEY P. LONG BECAME GOVERNOR TWELVE YEARS AGO, A PAT ON THE HEAD...
Prime Minister King, in spite of a Liberal majority in Parliament of 215-to-120, was in no very comfortable position. A week before he had been knifed by a member of his own Party, Ontario's Premier politician, who has something of the late Huey Long's capacity for raising political hell. Mitchell Hepburn rammed through the Ontario Legislature a resolution condemning the Ottawa Government for inefficiency in conducting the war (TIME, Jan. 29). With this Liberal stiletto still quivering between his broad shoulders, Prime Minister King prepared to face the verbal scalpels of Conservative Surgeon Manion...
Last week it looked as if Louisiana, after twelve years of the Long machine, had just about paid in full. Ended was a long, bitter, five-sided primary campaign, in which Huey's brother, Governor Earl Long, wrapped the mantle of Huey around him, with some opponents saying he had no right to wear it and some saying it was no mantle. Loud were the old-fashioned charges of fraudulent registrations, theft, tyranny, dictatorship, broken with old-fashioned cries of "Turn the rascals out." All this noise indicated that the voters were out in force as they...
...Jones's prospects looked still brighter when the No. 3 man in the primary, ex-Governor James Noe, one time Huey Long lieutenant, came out for him. A few minutes after Noe's swing was announced, distraught Governor Long called a special session of the Legislature, hurriedly pushed through some abject vote-getting bills-repeal of the sales tax that has loaded Louisiana pockets with brass and aluminum tokens, repeal of the tax on gasoline used by boats, which has made Louisiana fishermen grind their teeth, statutory opening of the books of the State bond and tax board...
...Hepburn-King split is generally thought to be due to Mitch Hepburn's ambitions and personal jealousy. Ontario's Premier is a kind of Huey Long, and there is not room for both a King and a Kingfish in Canadian politics. As he submitted the condemnatory resolution last week, Mitch Hepburn said: "I stand firm on the statement that he [King] has not done his duty by his country and he never will. I am going to take my political future in my hands. If we are not reflecting the overwhelming sentiment of the people of Ontario, then...