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When young Huey Pierce Long wrote this campaign speech he was not a candidate for tick inspector of Winn Parish, Louisiana; he was only campaign manager for the candidate for tick inspector. But already he had learned that sweeping promises sweep up votes. Nineteen years later Huey Pierce Long ran for Governor of Louisiana, made sweeping promises, was elected. Elected with him was his good political friend, Paul N. Cyr, a dentist, who became lieutenant governor. Loud, red-headed Governor Long soon began to fulfill his campaign promises, to turn Louisiana topsy-turvy. Lieutenant Governor Cyr broke with him, became...
...Texas much ability as I have to predict today's game. No bull, it's going to be hard to steer a straight course. If you ox a longhorn who will win he will say, "Texas Guinan win." But I'll tell him, "Huey you to say such things" I decree that Harvard will win by a score of 20 to 7. Other scores: Virginia 7 Washington and Lee 12 Dartmouth 47 Lebanon Valley 0 Holy Cross 26 Rutgers 7 Yale 13 Army...
...politeness distinguish most U. S. college newspapers. Mostly they serve merely as bulletins of local events, enlivened only by such glimpses of the outside world as the Harvard Crimson offered last week: a boxed, front-paged prediction that the Cardinals would beat the Athletics, signed by one "Hu Flung Huey." A crusading college paper is the Daily of the University of Michigan, which with the Daily of the University of Minnesota took first place at last year's convention of the National College Press Association. On the Ann Arbor campus, many a scandal has been openly aired. Michigan...
...Vagabond feels that he owes a word of thanks and apology to his friend Dr. Huey. It was this wily Oriental who first brought the matter to his attention, but he disregarded it as merely another one of Huey's idle prognostications which are founded upon no firmer foundation than faith and hope, albeit they are received in charity. One or two of the more dubious witticisms are also...
...bankers had represented the bridge company as owning a franchise which protected it from competition for 20 years. Actually when the bonds were being sold the Louisiana State Legislature had already passed bills providing for two free bridges a few miles away. These were pet projects of mercurial Huey Pierce Long, Governor of Louisiana and Senator-elect, who also fostered the public ferries which have added to the bridge company's troubles...