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...Orleans, Nov. 7--Senator Huey P. Long announced plans for a new football junket today and warned the railroads that unless they agreed to his price for the trip "We'll ride free and pay them with their own money...
Week before the Louisiana State-Vanderbilt football game at Nashville, Senator Huey P. Long generously announced that he would finance the trip for 1,500 cadets, lend $7 to any other Louisiana State student who lacked funds. Purpose of the junket, said the "Kingfish," was to give the university a good name. At a student meeting, he gave out rules: "No liquor . . . no pulling the bell cord. . . . Don't take me lightly...
...Baton Rouge, after Louisiana students, some of whom were not above using pseudonyms to get the Senator's bounty twice, had "borrowed" $3,000. 5,000 students and townspeople last week clambered aboard five special 14-coach trains painted red, white, blue, orange and green. Going through Mississippi, Huey Long stood on the rear platform of the first train, waving and shouting at crowds assembled on station platforms, farmers working in fields. With him were the members of his private bodyguard, whom he had arranged to take along as "deputy game wardens...
...Nashville, a delegation headed by Mayor Hilary Howse was waiting to greet the Senator & party. Waving away six automobiles provided to take them to Capitol Square, where a crowd was waiting for a speech, Huey Long crisply announced: "We'll walk." On the way he stopped to order his bandleader to play "Alexander's Ragtime Band"; to seize a pretty brunette from the sidewalk crowd, make her march between himself and the Mayor. At the War Memorial Building, Senator Long led the university's 125-piece band, made a speech expressing his thanks for the reception. During...
When Louisiana had beaten Vanderbilt for the first time in its history by the convincing score of 29-to-0, Huey Long had expended so much energy that he was, for once, almost speechless. He puffed & panted: "We're-the greatest-team in the world. Anyone who-thinks we ain't-we plan-to meet...