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...little eyes of Louisiana's Senator Huey Pierce Long nearly popped out of his round face with excitement last week. By thundering majorities, his well-bossed electorate had just endorsed by referendum some more of his "poor people" laws: to abolish poll taxes, to impose income taxes, to exempt from taxation homes assessed at less than...
Still under a full head of steam, Huey Long next announced that he was going to call another special session of the Legislature, empower the Public Service Commission to declare a moratorium on all debts within the State for two years...
...Huey Long offered to bet that Louisiana State could beat Minnesota and Alabama on the same afternoon. Having made one member of the team a State Senator (see p. 17), he promised colonelcies to all State players who made touchdowns against George Washington University. Bert Yates made the one that enabled Louisiana to squeak through...
...fire-eater in Mississippi may be gentled by one contact with the urbane beneficence of Franklin Roosevelt. Two months ago Theodore Bilbo won the right in Mississippi's Democratic primary to succeed Senator Stephens by promising to "out-Huey Huey Long." Last week The Man Bilbo called at the White House, showed himself a turnquote. On emerging he buttonholed newshawks and declared: "I want you boys to do a favor. Correct the impression that Bilbo is coming here as a ... hellraiser. He is 100% Democratic. I am coming to Washington to stand by the party, the platform and the President...
...begin dealing in the facts of life. It is a point needing little re-emphasis that the semi-literacy which is weaned on the diet dished out by earnest graduates of the neighboring normal school provides a noble share of the tragic humor in any democracy. It enthusiastically fosters huey longs and pink toothbrush, joe penners and streamlined bathtubs, athletes foot and esquire. It glories in the Sir Galahad account of the Spanish-American War, and it establishes as a natural limit to the study of civics, the skeleton of the local street-cleaning department...