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...assistance or relief from other Senators, was in fact going to be held strictly to the rules. He could yield only for a question and if nobody asked him any he would have to keep on talking to hold the floor. The Senate was plainly sick & tired of the Kingfish's tactics and for once was going to hold his feet to the fire he had started in order to burn the Administration...
...popped Alabama's Senator Black to make the Senate's intentions perfectly plain to the leather-lunged Kingfish: "I believe it is the will of the Senate to proceed now and let the Senator from Louisiana continue his speech and complete it, even though it takes until Sunday...
...carried many banners declaring: "Supreme Court Declares Yale Unconstitutional," "Every Man Is a King," "Disloyal Order of the Kingfish," "Share Your Wealth With Your Wife," and "We Are Fugitives From a Chain Letter." They were dressed as kings, with blue robes and blue and gold crowns, making a very colorful procession...
...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...