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...Louisville Joint Stock Land Bank was stayed from foreclosing a $9,000 mortgage on William W. Radford's 170-acre Kentucky farm by a brand-new device for scaling down farm debts and forestalling foreclosures-the Frazier-Lemke Act, a non-Administration measure filibustered to passage by Senator Huey P. Long in the last days of the 73rd Congress. That law permitted a farmer to declare himself bankrupt and keep his farm by having its current value appraised, then paying this sum to his creditors within five years. Farmer Radford got his debt scaled down to $4,445, arranged...
...Heard Huey Pierce Long shrill for action on his demand that it investigate James Aloysius Farley, gave him a stinging quietus...
...Carthage, Tex., close to the Louisiana State line, Henry Walton, big black buck, began to dote on the philosophy of Huey Long. Last week he got a pistol, used it to knock a storekeeper over the head, helped himself to the trade goods, conducted a brief reign of terror. Then he fled across the Sabine River. When pursuers arrived on the opposite bank, he shouted: "Stay on your side of the Sabine! Me and Huey Long is running this side." The constable of the Carthaginians, who had no wish to share their wealth, knelt down and drilled Henry Walton through...
...Cleveland rally. He left Cleveland with neither a Michigan nor an Ohio committee named. He had decided meantime that the lieutenants of his political machine would, like Ku Klux Klansmen, be masked in secrecy. Reason, as explained by his Washington lobbyist, Louis B. Wrard: two friends had joined Huey Long at the Farmers' Holiday Convention in Des Moines (TIME, May 6), had thereby embarrassed Priest Coughlin by giving the impression that they were his ambassadors...
...Priest Coughlin is committed to no one else. Politically, he remains a free lance. He may line up with Huey Long for a single fight or a series of them, but he will make no visible permanent alliances. He disclaims any notion of a third party. His six-month-old National Union for Social Justice, for which he claims 8,500,000 members, is a "people's lobby." That its will is the will of one man, not even he could readily deny...