Word: kingfish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Holliday called out his militia, saying "it was nothing but a drill." By these martial hints, Ellison learned he was no longer Attorney General. Governor Long had decided after four months that Ellison had taken his oath of office illegally. Also ousted was the first assistant, bald, old Kingfish-worshipping James O'Connor. Next day Ellison, with a straight face, remarked that Long had done him a "favor," withdrew from the January 16 primary as opposition candidate to New Orleans' City Attorney Francis Burns, Long's choice for Attorney General...
Death last week took from the Senate a quiet, kindly, able Southern judge, baggy-kneed, baggy-faced Marvel Mills Logan (TIME, Oct. 9). In jigtime the Senate this week got as his successor the nearest thing to Huey Long since the Kingfish was shot to death...
...nine riotous years the late Huey Long's Louisiana State University seemed the answer to a collegian's dream. Upon his students the Kingfish lavished two luxurious athletic stadia, a huge gymnasium, a mammoth coliseum, the longest U. S. swimming pool, 100 grand pianos, the best football team and the biggest band that money could buy. Fabulous were the parties and the football junkets he threw for L. S. U. students. Long, his L. S. U. president, James Monroe Smith, his hand-picked trustees and his legislators thrust scholarships upon them (last year...
...July 15, 1935) to give Huey what still stands on the Senate's books as the most comprehensive dressing down administered in the chamber in modern history, a flaying executed so neatly and yet so politely, rich in classical allusion and historical anecdote, that the garrulous Kingfish was for once stumped for an answer...
...Docks (main employment centre of New Orleans), commissioner of police and fire, president of the Port of New Orleans, and most important, as one of the triumvirate (with Leche and dark, toughly shrewd Mayor Robert Maestri of New Orleans) which took control of the racy Long machine when the Kingfish died, Weiss was apparently beyond reach. He had won a victory over the Government in 1936 when the New Deal dropped charges of income tax evasion against him, on grounds that there had been "a change of atmosphere" in Louisiana. When such cynical atmosphere sniffers as Columnist Westbrook Pegler noted...