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...Into the White House stormed Louisiana's rambunctious Senator Huey Long to "demand" his "rights" in the matter of political patronage. Thirty minutes later he emerged calm and chastened. "The President and I," said he, "are never going to fall out. I'll be satisfied whichever way matters...
...morning a Honduran rumrunner broke away from a deputy marshal, tried to smash Photographer Wil-liams's camera with his manacled hands. The alert cameraman sidestepped, snapped. In the evening Williams showed up at the Louisville & Nashville Railway Station with a flock of newshawks who had detected Huey Long in the act of trying to slip quietly off to Washington. (Supposed reason: to try to get revoked the appointment of Lawyer Paul B. Habans, whom he dislikes, as Louisiana manager of Federal Home Owners Loan Corp.) With the Senator was his personal bodyguard, swart Joe Messina...
With editorials, cartoons and jingles (such as above) the New Orleans States fought the rule of Huey Pierce ("King-fish") Long in Louisiana for the past five years. The wily Kingfish did not take this sort of thing lying down. He won over the Item and Tribune, whose Publisher James Mcllhany Thomson (son-in-law of the late great Champ Clark) had formerly opposed him. by giving the Thomson papers all State advertising, by forcing State employes to subscribe...
...sale, John Dunbrack Ewing, trustee and operator since 1931 of his late father's paper, called the States staff together. A note of bitterness found its way into his farewell address when he recalled that "Huey Long by threats and terrorism had blocked efforts to refinance after the bank troubles this spring, when the States was caught in the Canal Bank & Trust Co. [TIME, April 3]." He was happy to say that the Times-Picayune, "the South's oldest and richest newspaper" and no friend to Huey Long, would retain the States' senior staff members, including Editor...
...morning a Honduran rumrunner broke away from a deputy marshal, tried to smash Photographer Wil-liams's camera with his manacled hands. The alert cameraman sidestepped, snapped. In the evening Williams showed up at the Louisville & Nashville Railway Station with a flock of newshawks who had detected Huey Long in the act of trying to slip quietly off to Washington. (Supposed reason: to try to get revoked the appointment of Lawyer Paul B. Habans, whom he dislikes, as Louisiana manager of Federal Home Owners Loan Corp.) With the Senator was his personal bodyguard, swart Joe Messina...