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...Huey Long did not increase the size of Louisiana's Supreme Court in order to get himself a majority. He did not need to. He, and his machine, had the opportunity to get four friendly justices out of seven on the bench. It took a little more finagling, however, to make Louisiana elections safe for Long. As elsewhere in the South the important part of Louisiana elections is the primary. Louisiana's primary law provided that every candidate could hand in the names of his choices for election clerks and commissioners. All the names were written on slips...
Only trouble with this system from the Long standpoint was that in 1934 his enemy T. Semmes Walmsley used it to get re-elected Mayor of New Orleans. So two years ago Huey Long, striding up and down the aisles of his Legislature and cracking the whip, passed a law placing the naming of election officials in the hands of a board the majority of which was appointed by his Governor. Thereafter Longsters counted the votes...
...Left. By Huey Pierce Long, who died intestate; a net estate of $116,971, that could be found; in New Orleans, under an accounting filed by his brother, Louisiana's Lieutenant Governor Earl K. Long...
...responsibility lies with the traditional American belief in an inflated democracy which presupposes that a college education is the inalienable right of every individual, like a free press or a free dental clinic. It found its purest expression in the program of the late Huey Long who was going to make new colleges spring forth full-armed so that "soon nobody will even hear of Harvard and Louisiana State...
...good all-round university, Tulane has an illustrious medical school more than a century old, a football team that often tops the Southern Conference, an administration spunky enough to hold up its end of a feud with Kingfish Huey Long after refusing him an honorary degree. An all-round educator, President-Elect Harris was born in Georgia and went to Mercer University there, graduating in 1917, just in time to serve as a Wartime first lieutenant of infantry. After that he studied at Yale Law School, became a Doctor of Jurisprudence, reached his Tulane deanship in 1927. He established Tulane...