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...happen to know a great deal more about branch banking than the Senator from Virginia [Carter Glass] has had a chance to know. . . . The record of the State of Louisiana stands out with practically no such thing as a big bank failure." -Huey Pierce ("Kingfish") Long on the floor of the U. S. Senate...
...after Huey Long blustered thus last week, not a big Louisiana bank but the $32,000,000 Union Indemnity group of insurance companies tumbled into receivership-biggest crash in New Orleans for nearly 50 years. They were Huey Long's pet companies. Since his ascendency he has seen to it that Union Indemnity got all state departmental insurance, that it bonded all state employes, all bridge and highway contractors. Most of the group's insurance and bonds were immediately taken over last week by the Aetna group of Hartford, including the $50,000 bonds of Colonel Luke...
Died. Oramel Hinckley Simpson, 62, onetime (1926-28) Louisiana Governor, secretary of the State Senate (1908-24, 1932); of heart disease; in New Orleans. His sell-out to Huey Pierce ("Kingfish") Long in the three-cornered scramble for Governor in 1928 gave Long his real boost up to Governor, Louisiana's bossdom and the U. S. Senate...
Little 1. Fling Huey will be cating bulldog mincemeat with chopsticks made out of the despicable Yale goalposts before two hundred more bandits are killed in Manchuria. It is no bull to say that the bulldog will have his day as the underdog tomorrow. Harvard 14 Yale 7 Brown 14 Colgate 6 Notre Dame 20 Navy 0 Stanford 21 California...
...Joseph Forecast '16, the well-known political expert, was the predecessor of Dr. Huey as the Crimson's football prognosticator...