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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...
...Sued. Huey P. ("Kingfish") Long, U. S. Senator from Louisiana; by Anne Ector Pleasant, wife of Louisiana's one-time Governor Ruffin G. Pleasant; for $250,000. Charges: that he defamed her character by arresting her without cause after ordering her out of the State House 1932, that he called her "a drunken, cursing woman." Chirped the Kingfish: ''That means that up to date I have been sued...
...four. On the fifth, a catch-all charge of general misconduct, 45 out of 79 Senators found him guilty. That was not enough to convict. The prosecution lacked eight votes of the necessary two-thirds majority. His puffy face wrinkled with smiles. Judge Louderback had his hand pumped by Huey Long, said he would take a little vacation before returning to his bench...
...money matched by an equal amount in stock subscriptions launched the new bank. It will be a national not a state bank like its predecessor. Thereby Hibernia will get out from under control of Louisiana's State banking department which, dominated by Huey Long, has forced Louisiana banks to dance to the mad Long tune. Rudolf S. Hecht, president of the old bank, retired to chairman...