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...ninth day Huey Pierce ("Kingfish") Long, political god to the electorate of Louisiana, rested. His filibuster against the Glass banking bill was over...
Down the hall stomped flushed, truculent Senator Huey Pierce ("Kingfish...
Beneath its crop of curly reddish hair the round pug-nosed face of Senator Huey Pierce ("Kingfish") Long of Louisiana glared pugnacious defiance across the Senate Chamber at Virginia's famed Carter Glass. The bill that "won't go through before March 4" was Senator Glass's to revamp the Federal Reserve system. Senator Long, opposed to its branch banking features, was out to talk it to death. He waved his arms in mighty circles. He bludgeoned the Senate with loud arrogant words. He drove most of his colleagues from the Chamber in utter disgust. But almost...
...rough, crude, unbridled force, Huey Long is more than a windy showman of the Tom Heflin breed who bows to party control. He is persistent. He is quick-witted. He is unscrupulous. For a year he has been in open revolt against the Robinson-Glass-Harrison leadership of his party. He envisages himself as the captain of the next Senate, with a radical economic program to put through. He is for President Roosevelt only so long as President Roosevelt is for him. His tactics last week drove a big wedge deep into his party and left President Roosevelt the tough...
While Louisiana's Huey Pierce ("Kingfish") Long blustered and blathered on the floor of the U. S. Senate all last week in a filibuster against the Glass branch banking bill, designed to provide sound banking facilities for outlying districts, a wave of bank closings smashed over the outlying districts of St. Louis. With a clean record of no closings last year and only two since the Depression St. Louis was rudely introduced to sights long since familiar in many parts of the land: sullen lines of depositors doggedly crowding into a big building for their money, angry, shouting depositors...