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...actual sponsors of Potato Control were bushy-haired Representative Lindsay Carter Warren from the potato-growing northeastern corner of North Carolina and long-faced Senator Josiah William Bailey of the same State. Conservative Senator Bailey, who has opposed inflation, Government spendthriftiness, Huey Long and Father Coughlin, and who has been as cool as a Senator from a Cotton State could be toward the Bankhead Act for compulsory cotton control, frankly gave his reason for proposing Potato Control: "Farmers have continually been driven from cotton, tobacco and peanut production, and have gone into the production of potatoes. . . . We cannot afford...
...make subsidy payments quicker and easier (see p. 131. The jaded legislators clutched at this as the way to get home, passed a hard & fast resolution to adjourn at midnight. But as twilight set in the President learned that an unpleasant fly was buzzing in his adjournment cup- Huey Long. The Senator from Louisiana was roaring that the poor farmers had been betrayed, said he would keep roaring until midnight, killing the $93,000,000 deficiency bill for Social Security, which had been caught in the cotton battle (see p. 10). He kept his word. A little after midnight...
...filibuster until midnight for which adjournment was set. Half a dozen Senators protested. Washington's Schwellenbach, ringleader of the "freshman" group who made the Kingfish toe the mark during his previous filibuster (TIME., June 24), sat down behind him to harry him, see that he observed the rules. Huey Long rambled on & on, stalking up and down, heeding no pleas, no sarcasms. He called the House "435 dumbbells," was called to order. Democratic leaders conferred on stopping the clock until Huey Long was exhausted, finally decided...
...South who had bought cotton at 11? would suffer a loss if AAA moved its price peg down 3?. Two days later, anxious to send Congress packing. President Roosevelt offered to lend 10? instead of 9?, and Congress adjourned in a flare of fireworks staged by Senator Huey Long, unassisted...
...Huey Long last week made his first contribution to the political campaign of 1936. Rising in the Senate he announced his intention of putting something into the record "for posterity to read." For this honorable preservation he proposed no words of his own but a quotation with which he credited Senator Borah...