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McCarthy's dubious service to the 22% who needed his tutelage accounts for less than half the McCarthy myth. The rest of it was supplied by the New and Fair Dealers who set out to prove that this cunning opportunist was the reincarnation of Torquemada, Huey Long and Hitler...
...possessed the arrogance and pride to demand with, and the temerity to object with, and the ambition to substitute with ... So God even used the ambition. He already presaw the long roster of the ambition's ruthless avatars-Genghis and Caesar . . . and Stalin and Bonaparte and Huey Long...
...reply to questions about what could be done with McCarthy, Schlesinger suggested that Eisenhower do what President Roosevelt did with Senator Huey Long. He recalled how FDR had cut off Long's patronage and mobilized administration leaders against...
Died. Marshall Ballard, 73, longtime (1907-47) editor of the New Orleans Item; in New Orleans. A crony of Author-Editor Henry L. Mencken in his fledgling Baltimore days, Ballard became a crusader against the Ku Klux Klan, carried on a personal feud with Strongman Huey Long, whom he once offered a $10-a-week reporting job ("That's not enough," sneered the 18-year-old Kingfish. "I'm going places...
...Louisiana State University learned that it had not yet escaped the days of Huey Long. Last week the state legislature announced that the $1,500,000 appropriation that the library had been expecting so long would not go to the library after all. Instead, it will pay the cost of adding 22,000 more seats to the seldom-filled 39,200-seat stadium that Huey built. ¶Verner W. Clapp, chief assistant librarian of Congress, warned U.S. scientists to restrain themselves. Today, said he, there are nearly 2,000,000 scientific articles that U.S. librarians have not yet had time...