Word: kingfish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ninth day Huey Pierce ("Kingfish") Long, political god to the electorate of Louisiana, rested. His filibuster against the Glass banking bill was over...
Down the hall stomped flushed, truculent Senator Huey Pierce ("Kingfish...
Cried he: "The house of Morgan is the undisputed kingfish of the banking situation!" The galleries tittered but Senator Glass, deaf to the long outpourings, did not look up from the book he was reading. Sticking fairly close to his subject the Louisianian rambled...
...third day Senator Long's voice was a hoarse whisper. Much of his bluster had gone. From old yellow copies of the Congressional Record he read musty and long-disproved attacks on the personal integrity of Eugene Meyer, whom he called the "Kingfish of the Federal Reserve." Croaked Senator Long: "What he won't do ain't in the books! Yet we hunt boys with a pint of whiskey on the hip. What's the use of keeping Capone in Atlanta? What's the use of hunting Insull in Greece?" At 5 p. m., worn...
While Louisiana's Huey Pierce ("Kingfish") Long blustered and blathered on the floor of the U. S. Senate all last week in a filibuster against the Glass branch banking bill, designed to provide sound banking facilities for outlying districts, a wave of bank closings smashed over the outlying districts of St. Louis. With a clean record of no closings last year and only two since the Depression St. Louis was rudely introduced to sights long since familiar in many parts of the land: sullen lines of depositors doggedly crowding into a big building for their money, angry, shouting depositors...