Word: kingfish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard," Thomas G. Ratcliffe, Jr. '35; W. Alden Harken '35; Joseph McG. Bottkol 3G; William B. Horton 1G.B.; C. Malcolm Watkins '34; John A. Bovey, Jr. '35; Kermit R. Kimball '35; Carl L. Billman '35; and Theodore C. Uebel 1G have hurled a gauntlet of defiance at Lousiana's Kingfish. Determined to undermine the pressure brought to bear by The Washroom Senator in his recent address supporting the Patman Bonus Bill, the Ten Thousand despatched a telegram to the President urging his veto. At a late hour last night the Harvard Host, all owning allegiance to Eliot House, had received...
Your reputation for accuracy is impugned. You carry ads April 22 issue TIME indicating one of four episodes of current release March of Time is descriptive of Kingfish Long's career. . . . We have made repeated inquiries from R. E Toups, local manager of Loew's State, and also F. F. Goodrow, local manager First Division Film Exchange, who vigorously maintain they do not know why this subject was deleted. Where can it be seen...
Chirped the "Kingfish": "I made about $25,000. ... I spent it for brass bands. football games and drinks for my friends. I.got some good...
...across the nation rolled the nasal, back-country accents of the "Kingfish." "It has been publicly announced that the White House orders of the Roosevelt Administration have declared a war." cried he. "The lately-lamented, pampered, ex-Crown Prince, General Hugh S. Johnson, one of those satellites loaned by Wall Street to run the Government . . . was apparently selected to make the lead-off speech. . . . What is the trouble with this Administration? . . . They think that Huey Long is the cause of all their worry. They go gunning for me, but am I the cause of their misery? Well, they are like...
...propagandizing his Share-The-Wealth Plan. For his plan to make "every man a king" by limiting personal capital to $4,000,000, by guaranteeing at least $5,000 for a homestead and a $2,000 to $2,500 annual income to every family in the nation, the "Kingfish" claimed a galaxy of precedent...