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...Huey Long was rapidly weakening when the galleries began to fill a third time with drenched Shriners from their parade, with people in evening clothes from night clubs. At 2 o'clock Huey was more amenable...
...Huey Long, a virtual wreck, began to sidle toward the door...
Senators dozing on the cloakroom couches looked up to see Huey Long making a beeline for the men's room, knew his filibuster was over. In 15½ hours he had filled 85 pages of the Congressional Record at a cost of $4,500. While on his feet he had consumed a pound and a half of grapes, half a pound of American cheese, 15 glasses of milk. He had set a record for one-man filibusters second only to the 18-hour and 23-minute performance of the late great Robert Marion LaFollette on the Aldrich-Vreeland currency...
More important last week than the passage of the resolution extending the remnants of NRA until April 1, 1936 was Senator Huey Long's filibuster against that measure. The filibuster resulted in Long's losing a fat wad of prestige, and the methods used to break his obstructionism, having once been found, are not likely to be forgotten, whereas NRA, as extended, can have no prestige, must be forgotten soon...
...Last week, at 6 a. m., after an all-night session with Huey Long, the Senate again amended the resolution, extracting the last drop of milk. In future any voluntary codes may cover hours of work and rates of pay but do not protect coded industries "against existing laws, including the anti-trust laws...