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...domain where Huey Long founded a dynasty on demagoguery, his successors have been challenged at the polls three times by an upcountry judge called "the poor man's candidate...
...Long, Huey's brother, who may not succeed himself, hand-picked former District Judge Carlos G. Spaht of Baton Rouge...
...reissue its whole stock of 205 films in eleven other coast-to-coast cities, planned to include more cities as prints became available. Sample sights in store: Republican Presidential Nominee Alf Landon out to overthrow Roosevelt's New Deal; the rise of Adolf Hitler; Father Coughlin and Huey Long on the stump; the Midwest's bleak Dust Bowl...
From Washington, Louisiana's boyish-looking Russell Long, son of the late Huey, nephew of Governor Earl and the youngest member (32) of the U.S. Senate, sent word to the homefolks: he would support Congressman Hale Boggs in the 1952 race for governor. Boggs, who is young himself (37), won his Congress seat in 1946 on an anti-Long reform ticket. It was one more sign that Russell Long was determined not to be a chip off the old block. Senators familiar with Huey's demagogic ways are impressed by Russell's dogged and unflamboyant performance...
Nephew Russell's heresy was not left unreprimanded, however. From Uncle George Long, elder brother of Earl and Huey, came the rumble of family anger. "It is a peculiar thing and an astonishing thing," he cried, "to see the son of Huey Long politically in bed with such people-people who plotted day after day to get his father out of office . . . Huey Long's boy . . . has blundered into this monstrous error, this hideous mistake, but please don't hate this boy, you good old Long people of Louisiana ... He is young...