Word: kingfish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was Governor Oscar Kelly Allen, who with tears coursing down his cheeks, gave out the first official statement on the Dictator's death: "It . . . marks the passing of the greatest hero in the fight for the common rights of all the people of America.'' "The Kingfish" had no truer friend than Oscar Allen. Twelve years Long's senior, he had grown up with him in Winn Parish. Waxing wealthy in oil and merchandise, he had staked Long to his political start in 1918 when Long ran for a place on the Louisiana Railroad Commission. As Governor, Oscar Allen...
...Huey Long. The seventh special session of Louisiana's Legislature was just getting down to the business of rubberstamping 39 bills devised by the Senator to tighten his one-man dictatorship over the State. On the floor there had been the customary brawling and cursing as the "Kingfish" strutted up & down the aisle giving orders to his henchmen. As the Legislature adjourned for the night, Senator Long marched out of the chamber and started down the corridor to Governor Allen's office, flanked, as always, by his bodyguards. A young man in a white suit, lurking...
Senator Long clapped his hand to his side, staggered down the corridor. Attracted by the crackle of gunfire, friends rushed forward, carried the wounded "Kingfish" out a rear door, put him into a car, started for Our Lady of the Lake Hospital. On the way Huey Long held his hand to his bleeding side, spoke only once: "I wonder...
...midst of his filibuster which marked the closing hours of the Senate session. Next to him sat Arizona's white-suited Ashurst and just beyond, Oklahoma's blind Gore, his head attentively lifted. In his frontrow aisle seat slouched Senate Leader Robinson, disgusted beyond words at the "Kingfish's" performance. Around the walls of the chamber stood Representatives who had come over from the House to watch...
...obvious that the Senator intended to filibuster until midnight for which adjournment was set. Half a dozen Senators protested. Washington's Schwellenbach, ringleader of the "freshman" group who made the Kingfish toe the mark during his previous filibuster (TIME., June 24), sat down behind him to harry him, see that he observed the rules. Huey Long rambled on & on, stalking up and down, heeding no pleas, no sarcasms. He called the House "435 dumbbells," was called to order. Democratic leaders conferred on stopping the clock until Huey Long was exhausted, finally decided...