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...Senate, with Huey Long absent in Louisiana, passed (68-to-16) the $4,800,000,000 work relief bill, sent it back to the House...
...Townsend Plan, touched its high watermark just before Chairman Doughton of the House Ways & Means Committee put the old country doctor on the witness stand and made a monkey out of him (TIME, Feb. 18). As of All Fools Day, 1935, the largest political splash was being made by Huey Pierce Long's Share- the-Wealth movement...
...were all but empty; 2) the Senate itself suddenly began to make progress on its legislative program. This positive popularity with spectators, this negative power with Senators, did not pass Washington unnoticed. To wiseacres there it was just one more significant proof of the important change, personal and political, Huey Long has undergone in the last few weeks...
...course, it may not seem to be the duty of the university scholar to actively fight the fallacies in thinking of Huey Longs and Father Coughlins. Nor is it at all certain that in the beginning the intelligent public could choose between good and bad economics. But a beginning could he made in stressing fundamental economics truths which are over-looked in the present day. Gradually the truth might dawn...
...Administration have declared a war." cried he. "The lately-lamented, pampered, ex-Crown Prince, General Hugh S. Johnson, one of those satellites loaned by Wall Street to run the Government . . . was apparently selected to make the lead-off speech. . . . What is the trouble with this Administration? . . . They think that Huey Long is the cause of all their worry. They go gunning for me, but am I the cause of their misery? Well, they are like old David Crockett who went out to hunt a possum. . . . Soon he discovered that it was not a possum at all that...