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...shameful . . . He has weakened the morale of our federal service and spread suspicion and fear throughout the nation. He has stirred up hatred and used every device to destroy the confidence of Americans in each other . . . [He is] our modern Grand Inquisitor . . . a dangerous, clever and ruthless demagogue . . . another Huey Long...
...Louisiana's Julius T. Long, brother of the late Democratic Senator Huey Long and former Governor Earl Long, came out for Eisenhower. Other Longs are working hard for Stevenson...
...Does it sort out the charlatan from the statesman? Are we quite sure that Father Coughlin and Huey Long wouldn't have been bigger with the help of television? You can't stop the picture and say, 'Go look at his voting record...
...opponents of the Long dynasty had some interesting points to raise. Earl had carried on for the family after Brother Huey ("Kingfish") was cut down by an assassin in 1935, seven years after he had founded the line. Earl lost control when the citizens revolted and turned him out of the governor's office in 1940, but he staged a comeback in 1948. In the governor's chair once again, he out-Hueyed Huey and his "make every man a king" program. Earl gave the state big old-age pensions, cheap school lunches, veterans' bonuses and highway...
...they elected eleven of Mossadegh's twelve National Front candidates, crushed the threat of the Communist Tudeh Party and whipped his No. 1 parliamentary opponent, wealthy landlord Jamal Imami. The more violently fanatic the candidate, the mere votes that candidate polled. Topping the list: Firebrand Hussein Makki, the Huey Long of the Frontists, closely trailed by Religious Leader Ayatulla Kashani, boss of the gunman-terrorist wing of the Frontist Party. With only one-sixth of the election returns in for the entire country (and with 36 killed in election troubles), Mossadegh seemed to be winning a clear mandate...