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...more consequence last week to the chunky, rumple-headed Louisiana "Kingfish" than keeping his State out of the Century of Progress was the matter of keeping himself in the U. S. Senate. To Vice President Garner 24 Louisiana citizens dispatched a sizzling petition calling for the ousting of Senator Long on eleven charges. The Vice President turned the petition over to the Senate which whisked it temporarily out of sight to a committee. Its chief sponsor was John Milliken Parker, onetime (1920-24) Governor of Louisiana and longtime enemy of the Long machine...
...Political Monstrosities" Mr. Kent traces, with extraordinary insight and no mincing of words, the measures by which "cheap and shoddy fellows" viz. Huey Long, achieve real political power in a great state; how they work their publicity, and what can be done to stop them. The triple-screw steamturbined kingfish is shown up by a Voltaire come for judging. It is all "stagestuff," one knows already, but this article shows how it is staged and how received. The thick-skinned Longs and "Big Bill" Thompson are not able to differentiate between the kind of publicity they want when running...
...third largest bank in the city. To New Orleans it was the fantastic second act of a drama that opened last month with the crash of the big Union Indemnity Insurance group (TIME, Jan. 16), closely associated with President Rudolf S. Hecht of the Hibernia and Senator Huey Pierce ("Kingfish") Long...
...think that it would be most TIMEly for a brief history of our Honorable Huey Kingfish Long...
...life of The Kingfish see TIME...