Word: kingfish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year-old lawyer, he had held no posts weightier than president of the L.S.U. student government, and executive counsel to Louisiana's Governor-who happened to be his Uncle Earl. Russell's biggest political asset was a remarkable physical resemblance to his father, Huey. the Kingfish himself. He was dubbed the Princefish. That was all right with Russell; at 13, he had said of his father: "When I grow up. I want to be exactly like him." But somewhere along the way. Russell Long changed his mind...
...brother's political battles for him too (once Earl nearly chewed off the finger of an opponent, another time lunged at a man and bit him in the throat). Yet, even at the peak of Huey's power, Earl was still in the shadow, forbidden by the Kingfish to climb the higher reaches. Their falling out was bitter; to Earl, Huey was "the yellowest coward that God ever let live...
...factories to higher teachers' pay. His opponents, avowed segregationists all, blamed "Faubusism" for the greatest flight of people from any state in the past decade, but Faubus expertly used the formula of paternalism and social welfare that long spelled success for Louisiana's late Huey ("Kingfish") Long. His victory, said the Arkansas Gazette dolefully, meant "the emergence of one political figure to dominate the state's politics as it has never been dominated before...