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...President." "The Senator from Louisiana." The large gilt clock over the Vice President's chair stood at 12:17 p. m. as Huey Pierce Long rose at his front-row desk and took the Senate floor last week. Before the chamber was a resolution to keep the ghost of NRA above ground for another nine months. If the resolution were not passed within four days, even that ghost would disappear and President Roosevelt would be left looking sick and silly. In high good spirits, therefore, Senator Long set out to make the President look sick and silly by talking...
...galleries roared. For another hour Huey Long rambled on but obviously he was getting nowhere. No Senator rose to help his filibuster. The Shriners were beginning to go out to dinner. Shortly after 5 o'clock Oklahoma's Senator Thomas made the point of no quorum. While the roll was being called Huey Long slipped out of the Chamber for brief relief. When he came back he asked for an opportunity to retire gracefully: "Mr. President, I am not anxious to proceed too long. If we can get a unanimous-consent agreement to vote by noon tomorrow...
AMERICAN MESSIAHS-The Unofficial Observer-Simon & Schuster ($2). Timely appraisals of Huey Long, Father Coughlin, Upton Sinclair and other politicians, by the anonymous author of The New Dealers...
...Association acts only on specific complaint, usually one of dismissal without just cause or notice. Last winter it deplored the farce which Huey Long had made of academic freedom in his Louisiana State University, but held its fire because no facultyman had yet dared raise his voice in protest. When a complaint seems worthy of action, Committee A asks A. A. U. P. chapters in neighboring universities to nominate an investigating committee. The committee visits the complainant's campus, hears both sides firsthand. Sometimes it finds that a sluggard or incompetent has got his just deserts. Sometimes...
...what the psychologists used to call an inferiority complex. ... I cannot escape the conviction that Southerners would have a better chance to find the philosopher's stone by opening their eyes than they would by keeping them tightly closed." Southern politics, says he, with its Tom-Tom Heflin, Huey Long and The Man Bilbo should be reported on the sport pages where it belongs. The Southern conscience has never honestly faced the Negro question: the Civil War amendments (13th, 14th, 15th) should either be legally repudiated or enforced. "On the whole," Author Cason concludes, "the South would profit from...