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Just why this is so presents no problems, as the Big Men on any Louisiana campus will reveal. Huey Long is their man, an Idol of the idols. He awed the people, and the B.M.O.C. have taken the clue...
...have always been able to deal, in our own good way, with our more obvious demagogues, but how shall we deal with the new demagogues, who speak calumny, not in the raucous tones of a Huey Long, but in the winning accents of Jack Armstrong, the Ail-American Boy? How shall we deal with a Richard Nixon...
Died. Joseph E. Ransdell, 95, oldest ex-member of the U.S. Senate (TIME, May 31), Democratic Congressman (1899-1913) and Senator from Louisiana (1913-1931) until Huey Long decided in 1930 that he would rather serve the nation from Washington than from Baton Rouge; after long illness; in Lake Providence...
...seven: Georgia's Democrat Rebecca Latimer Felton, who served for two days in 1922; Arkansas' Democrat Hattie Caraway, who was appointed to succeed her husband in 1931, later was elected three times; Louisiana's Democrat Rose Long, who served a year after her husband, Huey, was assassinated in 1935; Alabama's Democrat Dixie Bibb Graves, appointed for five months in 1937; South Dakota's Republican (Miss) Gladys Pyle, elected for two months in 1938; South Dakota's Republican Vera C. Bushfield, who succeeded her husband for three months in 1948; Maine's Republican...
...Vegas, a federal grand jury indicted Greenspun under the postal laws on charges of mailing ''matter of an indecent character, tending to incite murder or assassination." As evidence, the indictment quoted a Greenspun column of last January: "Senator Joe McCarthy has to come to a violent end. Huey Long's death will be serene and peaceful compared with the demise of the sadistic bum from Wisconsin. Live by the sword and you die by the sword. Destroy people and they in turn must destroy you. The chances are that McCarthy will be laid to rest...