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...Chicago, huge Primo Camera stalked warily about the ring, actually retreating from but trying to make it look as Krakow though he were ("Kingfish" advancing Levinsky), against 197-lb. Harry fish-peddler, who looked like a pigmy in the ring with his 6-ft. yin. 270-lb. opponent. In the first round, an upward right-hand sweep from Kingfish Levinsky landed on the side of the pendulous Camera jaw, caused the monstrous Camera knees to buckle. Thereafter, wary and furious by turns, using all his weight, reach and slight knowledge of tactics, Carnera managed to maul, push, lambaste Levinsky enough...
Died. Oramel Hinckley Simpson, 62, onetime (1926-28) Louisiana Governor, secretary of the State Senate (1908-24, 1932); of heart disease; in New Orleans. His sell-out to Huey Pierce ("Kingfish") Long in the three-cornered scramble for Governor in 1928 gave Long his real boost up to Governor, Louisiana's bossdom and the U. S. Senate...
...have read with interest your magazine since becoming a subscriber, a splendid periodical for busy folk. But I take serious exception to the article on Kingfish Long. Give us the truth about politics but please don't quote the politician when he becomes sacrilegious...
...even hotter water than Amos 'n Andy's Kingfish of the Mystic Knights of the Sea was the Director General of the Loyal Order of Moose last week. Pennsylvania's Senator James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis, longtime (1921-30) Secretary of Labor, who took charge of the Moose in 1906 and boosted their membership from 247 to 600,000, was on trial in Manhattan's Federal Court charged with conspiracy to conduct an interstate lottery. In the same boat with the Moose was the Fraternal Order of Eagles, two of whose officers were also indicted two months ago (TIME...
Viewing with Alarm. These accomplishments have not silenced many a Louisianan who views the Long record with utmost alarm. The "Kingfish's" critics point out that he has raised the State's indebtedness from $11,000,000 to more than $100,000,000. The public payrolls have been loaded down with his fawning followers. Under him New Orleans has slipped from second to fifth among U. S. ports. Prisons are so overcrowded that last week Governor Allen had to release hundreds of offenders to save money. The gasoline tax has been upped from...