Word: kingfish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...established. No scandal was exposed. Yet the man-in-the-street watched and listened with the same fascination that would make him pause to witness a dog fight. When the fusillade of vilification, obloquy, traducement and backbiting ceased, the chief result seemed to be that Senator Huey Pierce ("Kingfish") Long had received the most thundering mass of publicity that had come to him in his whole lively career...
When he had finished his address, Senator Robinson's fellow-members went climbing over their desks to pump his hand in congratulation for a deed many of them had long lacked the nerve to do. But the price to be paid for trading parliamentary mud with the "Kingfish" was soon exacted. Returning to the fray, the button-nosed Louisianian accused Senator Robinson of double-crossing him on patronage, asserted that President Roosevelt had told him [Long] to keep Senator Robinson "in trouble," revealed that Senator Robinson had made his brother-in-law Federal Rice Administrator in Louisiana. "Threatening...
...know whether I would run for governor of Louisiana or whether I would run for the Senate." grinned the "Kingfish." "But I now announce that I will run for re-election to the Senate...
...Three weeks before. Huey Long had spurred his attack on the Administration by demanding an investigation of its most vulnerable member. Postmaster General Farley. Charges hurled against "General" Farley by "Kingfish" Long were that he gave away free stamps (TIME, Jan. 21), was interested in a race track wire service, had accepted party funds from a man about to be tried for using the mails to defraud, had intervened to save a Kansas City gangster and a banking group, which included Ambassador-at-Large Norman Davis and his brother, from Federal prosecution, had personally profited from PWA contracts. Just after...
...virile Kingfish denies that anyone has tried to smooth his grammar, curb his gestures, or check his vehemence. Despite this, it is a self-evident fact that Huey hasn't called anyone a dammed fool or an unprincipled liar for almost a week...