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...wasn't−but it sounded close enough. The caller was Attorney Gillis Long, 39, who is a cousin-type of Huey and of Huey's brother Earl* and "double-third cousin" of Huey's son, Senator Russell Long. Last week Gillis joined the family's highly successful political firm. He won the Democratic primary nomination in Louisiana's Eighth District, unseating Congressman Harold McSween, while Cousin Russell easily got renominated for a third term in the U.S. Senate...
Asked why his cartoons appeal to intellectuals when egg-heads such as Bernard are "losers" while "body-men" like Huey are successful, Feiffer stated that Huey is really a "primitive intellectual." "Huey knows through his bones," Feiffer explained." He has the right instincts, a sense of balance; and he knows who he is. Huey has no trouble getting girls. He really exists: I've seen him at parties...
...novelist with carelessness and cynicism. His best-known book, All the King's Men, is a good novel with great flaws. Its strengths are in mood, speech and flow of action; its weaknesses are Warren's failure to see the viciousness in Willie Stark, his idealized Huey Long character, and his distrust of his own ability to get through the book without melodrama. The novel's too-obtrusive narrator becomes aware of the unfathomable intertwinings of guilt, for instance, only when he learns that the man he has destroyed at Willie's request...
...problem was the rabble-rousing Governor, Huey Long. To win votes, Huey taxed Standard so heavily that it shut down its Baton Rouge refinery. When 8,000 jobless workers assembled to march on the capital with pistols and hunting rifles, Long quickly suspended the tax. Later, Long suddenly boosted Standard's taxes $20 million, summoned Rathbone. When Long, always trying to infiltrate Standard, asked for a job for a pal, Rathbone insisted that he would take him for a 30-day trial, keep him only if he worked out well. Long canceled the tax on the spot...
...past, women have worked actively to solve governmental problems, Judge Allen claimed. She cited the "52 years of ceaseless campaigning" which preceded the 19th Amendment and noted that women broke the Huey Long machine in Louisiana...