Word: kingfish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last February the Howell committee, still Republican, went to New Orleans to scrutinize the Overton-Broussard contest. During an explosive two weeks it became clear that the foes of Senator Long were trying to put the "Kingfish" and his crowd on trial instead of Senator Overton. The inquiring Senators scattered, dismissed their counsel. For nine months the inquiry slept. Fortnight ago it was revived as the result of vigorous protests from such outraged Louisianans as Mrs. Hilda Phelps Hammond, sister of one of the publishers of the anti-Long New Orleans Times-Picayune, and her Women's Committee...
...third anti-Long man got an important Federal job in New Orleans last week when President Roosevelt snubbed the rebellious "Kingfish" by appointing New Orleans' Daniel Decatur Moore to be Collector of Internal Revenue...
Huey Long is the Senate's No. 1 Colorful Figure. School children of the future will know enough political theory to titter at the Kingfish's comic relief after wading through dreary pages on the National Recovery Act. But for the present, the prospect of a large overproduction of general and special Hueyana brings up graver problems of government control than does a wheat surplus. One wonders who pays for the rain of Huey pamphlets which is meant to soak the rich...
...appeared to beard the funny man in public. But someone blackened the Colorful Figure's eye one dark night in the washroom of a Long Island beach club, all in the true spirit of fascistic democracy. Although this fistic filibusterer, the Kingfish, in a spirit of pure research, has located him on a preferred list of J.P. Morgan, the financial wizard recently tried for financial witchcraft. Now in the egalitarian thinking of Mr. Long, to be on a Morgan list is to be Morgan-owned, and Mr. Morgan owns Collier's weekly. This was discovered by Huey when...
...Morgan was murdering impoverished grousies in Scotland and Huey was helping with National Recovery. Curiosity got the best of the Morgan editors however, so Collier's offered a cash prize and medal to the unknown soldiers of the Sands Point washroom, should be make himself known. Nor did the Kingfish let any scaweed grow under his finny big foot. He has written a friendly letter, open and anonymous to Al Capone (Morgan-owned) telling how that tax-dodger can become friendly with the big-men in his racket, it is headed "J.P. Morgan and Co Points Way for Capone...