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...Louisiana, where followers of the late "Kingfish" are tinkering with the remnants of the Long machine and looking for a future machinist, Huey Long's son, Russell, announced that he was going to join the Army or Navy, practice a little law after the war, and then get into politics...
...powers; of a heart attack; at Randolph Field, Tex. At one time, during the Congressional primaries of 1934, Walmsley's police and Long's State troopers faced each other with loaded guns. Walmsley resigned in the middle of his second term (the year after the "Kingfish's" death), as he had promised to do if the legislature restored home rule to his city...
When death cut short the boisterous career of Huey Long, Maestri (who backed him long before he became the Kingfish) was his Commissioner of Conservation. New Orleans, the last rampart which held out against Huey's domination, gave up a few months later. Big-beaked Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley (known to Huey as old Turkey Head) resigned, and burly Governor Richard Webster Leche (rhymes with flesh) certified Candidate Bob Maestri to the job. Normally, Maestri would have come up for reelection in 1938. But Leche talked the Louisiana Legislature into giving Maestri a six-year term...
...graft that sent most of Huey Long's inheritors (including ex-Governor Leche) to the penitentiary. Since he took office five years ago, he has pulled New Orleans out of bankruptcy, put its finances on a cash basis, cut $20,000,000 from its debt. Like the Kingfish, Maestri is smart. His friends dabble in rackets to their hearts' content, but Maestri apparently keeps his hands clean. "Let the other guys have that stuff," he once told a reporter. "I made mine outside...
Lady From Louisiana (Republic) suggests that the land of the bayous was ripe for plucking long before the advent of Kingfish Huey Long. It also records the triumph of a 19th-Century Thomas E. Dewey (John Wayne) over one of Dewey's favorite rackets-the lottery...