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...story Capitol, free bridges where there had been toll bridges and ferries, free textbooks, the magnificent physical plant of the University. And one part of Huey Long's inheritance unemotional Governor-elect Sam Jones was never likely to invade: the folklore that Long inspired, the tales of his Kingfish cleverness and rascality gleefully repeated in country stores and country cabins, the vague, contradictory feeling that he somehow stood for the poor man ("Every man a king") that brought crowds out to hear him speak and put his picture in houses where there was nothing much else on the wall...
...Hepburn-King split is generally thought to be due to Mitch Hepburn's ambitions and personal jealousy. Ontario's Premier is a kind of Huey Long, and there is not room for both a King and a Kingfish in Canadian politics. As he submitted the condemnatory resolution last week, Mitch Hepburn said: "I stand firm on the statement that he [King] has not done his duty by his country and he never will. I am going to take my political future in my hands. If we are not reflecting the overwhelming sentiment of the people of Ontario, then...
Campaigning for brother-in-law Governor Earl Kemp Long, limpid-eyed ex-Senator Rose McConnell Long, widow of Louisiana's loquacious Kingfish, made an eleven-word speech to expectant voters of Donaldsonville, La.: "I am happy to be here and thank you very much...
...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...
...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...