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...Kingfish") Long went up to Arkansas last year, stumped the State with a motorcade and sound truck, elected Hattie Caraway to the Senate seat of her late husband. Wild was the uproar of outraged Louisianans last week when button-nosed, pugnacious Senator Long set out to ride Lallie Conner Kemp into Congress on his ruthless machine...
...Bolivar E. Kemp has been elected as a representative to Congress by the Sixth Louisiana District. The circumstances of her choice should be interesting to all those who insist that Fascism can never come in the United States. Mrs. Kemp was the only candidate; the Senator had insured that this would be the case by forbidding any primary elections in the district. Nat Tycer, a courageous judge who issued an injunction against the balloting, did not succeed by this mere constitutional device, and he called out several hundred special deputies to insure that it would not take place. Well...
There are many more details in the saga of Mrs. Bolivar E. Kemp, all faithfully reported by the newspapers, all either ignored editorially or considered as just so many more gems in Senator Long's crown of folly. Senator Long seized power in Louisiana by a coup of this same kind, he has retained it by a series of them, but all of this is treated, not as a sign of the times, but as an individual eruption unrelated to the larger questions of the forum. Why is Long in Louisiana less of a political phenomenon than Mussolini in Italy...
...Kemp, a member of the provincial archives staff, said he and his family sighted the beast last year, but kept it a secret for fear of not being believed. When Major W. H. Langley, clerk of British Columbia's Legislature, told last week of having seen the beast too, Archivist Kemp told his story as follows...
...program for national recovery. Among the stores that have joined are: Leavitt & Perice, J. August Inc., Walter A. Burke, The Haberdashery. The Harvard Co-operative Society, James Brine Co., Daley's Drug Inc., Gomatos Bros., Morisson MacGowan, J. T. Phelan Co., Worcester Bros. Co., Ruth Evelyn, E. F. Kemp. The First National Stores, Eaton Pharmacy, Amee Bros., Edwin R. Sage, La France Co., Russell R. Cameron, Bernice Cannon. Gustie's Restaurant, Fred Olssons, Cahaly's, Wright & Ditson, Valeteria Shop. Briggs & Briggs, and Max Keezer...