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Fearing that New Orleans audiences "might riot" if shown The March of Time's sequence on Huey Long, the Manhattan headquarters staff of Loew's Theatres Inc. ordered that sequence deleted in that city. Fearing a revenge tax from the Long Gang if the sequence were not deleted, and riots from anti-Longsters if it were, the Sanger Circuit decided not to show this March of Time issue at all in Louisiana...
Fine write-up on Huey in TIME, April 1. But 1) what is his religion and 2) does he work at it much...
...have just seen the third issue of the March of Time and I feel that I must tell you at once that I think it is remarkable. I wish that each and every high school student in the land could see it, especially the munitions and Huey Long sequences and I shall certainly see that they are urged to do so in the next issue of Scholastic. It also occurs to me that Scholastic should definitely allot space to the March of Time, that we should not lose this opportunity to heartily recommend this exceptionally clear-sighted sizing...
...also an excellent excuse for Secretary of the Interior Ickes to do something which no member of the Roosevelt Cabinet had yet dared to do-i.e., to express publicly his vast distaste for Huey P. Long. "I don't think," growled the PWAdministrator, "that Senator Long is going to dictate to us on how we are going to administer public works in Louisiana. . . . Mr. Long by the action of his Legislature will keep a lot of men out of work by making it impossible for PWA to make loans or grants. Apparently the Senator favors sharing wealth...
...Detroit's Rev. Charles E. Coughlin has increasingly proven that, with the possible exception of Huey P. Long, he is the ablest and most inflammatory rabble-rouser in the U. S., many a sober citizen has wondered how long his thoroughly autocratic Church would permit the radio priest to continue stirring up unchurchly controversy. Their wonder grew as Boston's outspoken old William Henry Cardinal O'Connell repeatedly flayed Father Coughlin for his "demagogic talk," "hysterical harangues," "humbugging," "pure sham'' and Father Coughlin cracked back that for 40 years the Cardinal had been notorious...