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...Received petitions from Louisiana citizens calling for the ousting of Senator Huey Pierce Long...
...Because the late Mayor Anton Cermak of Chicago voted against seating the delegation of Senator Huey P. Long at the Democratic National Convention. . . . When Governor Allen was appealed to, he also forbade the sending of the exhibit to Chicago...
...Parker & petitioners volunteered to furnish the Senate with evidence to prove that Huey P. Long...
...petition's reference to a Federal investigation of Huey Long's income started press stories that the Senator might soon be prosecuted by the Treasury on charges of tax evasion. Senate wiseacres concluded that the widening rift between Senator Long and President Roosevelt is attributable to this tax matter, held by the Administration like a club over the Louisianian's unruly head...
...century, he headed the New Orleans Cotton Exchange. A lifelong foe of civic indecency, he started his political career in 1913 by hiring the New Orleans Athenaeum and lashing local crookedness. In 1920, with the aid of the "best people," he got himself elected Governor. So vicious were Huey Long's attacks that Governor Parker sued him for criminal slander, won a conviction. The judge, however, suspended sentence because of "the rashness of youth." Later Huey Long helped that judge on to the State Supreme Court...