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Cleero was called a demagogue, Shakspere a catehpenny playwright, Lincoln a traitor, it is therefore not surprising to find that Huey P. Long is also misunderstood. A few months ago, by wearing pajamas at the reception of a German diplomat, Mr. Long almost predicated an international crisis. Only a few condoned his unusual evening dress, for only a few were astute enough to realize that behind that melancholy face, beneath that rugged brow, there dwelt the searching spirit of a statesman...
...about my world tour. Pat and Bernard Shaw are the only two people who can outtalk me. I had the President stopped. . . . While I was in there we fixed up all the affairs of the world. The only thing we didn't get to was Al Smith and Huey Long. . . . The President was in fine humor and he told the jokes. Said Pennsylvania, the second richest State, was the only one that had passed the tin cup for relief from the Federal Government. He laughed and got a kick out of this...
...James Watson Gerard, sundry other tycoons and their ladies. ¶ President Hoover asked Congress to appropriate an additional $1,450,000 with which the Department of Agriculture might fight grasshoppers. ¶ Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ernest Lee Jahncke of New Orleans took Louisiana's new Democratic Senator Huey Pierce Long to the White House to meet President Hoover. Emerging from the Executive Offices, Senator Long was asked what he thought of the President. "Considering the miserable party he represents.'' said he, "he is about as good as any of them...
...that rate stop Chiang Kaishek probably in new capital stop advice look west of Nanking stop didnt know there was Chinese navy stop will wire all developments at intervals stop why not advise me earlier stop could have gone out on navy boats stop watch Japs Geneva stop signed Huey stop...
...Juana, Mexico, Feb. 2--Wire ball two hundred dollars Chinese consul refuses cooperate Huey and associated press stop signed Escuadero police section stop...