Word: kingfish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Capitol lawn at Baton Rouge. Yet so deeply did he stamp his policies and personality on Louisiana that last week when half-a-million Democratic primary voters went to the polls to choose one man to be Governor and two to fill Long's Senate seat, the fabulous "Kingfish" seemed to walk abroad once more. Both factions of the State's Democracy still called themselves "Long" and "anti-Long...
...Senators who sat in the last session of Congress the one least liked by his colleagues was undoubtedly the late Huey Long. Had a secret vote for that distinction been taken, a runner-up to the Louisiana "Kingfish" would probably have been blind Senator Thomas David Schall of Minnesota. He was so unmeasured in his attacks on President Roosevelt, his wife and family, that even the sternest opponents of the New Deal shivered. But just as Senators were shocked by the assassination of Democrat Huey Long, so last week they were shocked by the tragedy that befell Republican Tom Schall...
Vacancy. Outside of his own clique of back-scratchers in Louisiana, Huey Long had few friends in public life. On the principle of de mortuis nil nisi bonum, his numerous enemies gave the Kingfish a charitable verbal sendoff. Spokesmen like General Johnson, Father Coughlin, James A. Farley and the New York Times chorused, in effect: "I didn't like anything about him, but I'm sorry he was assassinated...
...enough to keep them busy at home. Governor Floyd Olson of Minnesota is going to test his radicalism by opposing Senator Thomas D. Schall for his seat. Governor Eugene Talmadge of Georgia, whose abuse of President Roosevelt and the New Deal has been second only to that of the Kingfish, has Long's mannerisms but not Long's mind...
...impassioned radio address last week Share-Our-Wealth Preacher Smith aired his own suspicions as to who was responsible for the Kingfish's murder, laid the blame on New Orleans newspaper publishers and Senator Theodore Gilmore Bilbo of Mississippi, whom he darkly accused of journeying to New Orleans week before with $25,000 in his pocket. In his best form, "The Man" Bilbo snapped back: "The Reverend ... is a contemptible, dirty, vicious, pusillanimous, with-malice-aforethought, damnable, self-made liar...