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...available for a speaking tour." At McCook, Neb. sad-eyed Senator Norris, insurgent Republican, dabbed paint on his home while awaiting a visit from Governor Roosevelt in whose behalf he will later campaign from Ohio to California. In New Orleans curly-headed, loose-jawed, incredible Senator Huey Pierce ("Kingfish") Long champed impatiently to take to the hustings and raise his strident voice...
Last week blatant, bellicose Senator Huey Pierce ("Kingfish") Long reached a new pinnacle of power when Louisiana Democrats at their primary retired Senator Broussard. Long foe, and nominated in his place Representative Overton, Long friend. With Louisiana in his pocket Senator Long announced that he was through with ''precinct brawls" and was now going to the country at large to campaign for Franklin Delano Roosevelt. On the stump the Long theme song will be: "Rid America of Multimillionaires...
...They kidnapped an undetermined number of passengers, robbed 600. One of the passengers was Henry Hilgard Villard, son of Editor Oswald Garrison Villard (The Nation.) He escaped unhurt, with passport and money, lost only his luggage. With William Vincent Astor, Ichthyologist Charles Haskins Townsend, nine guests and several thousand kingfish and sea bass aboard, the Astor yacht Nonrmahal sailed from Manhattan for Bermuda. The fish, which are indigenous to the Atlantic Coast, were to be dumped overboard near Bermuda, to acclimate them to warm waters in hope of producing tropical species...
Outside Congress: Despite twelve years' minute attention to his local political fences, he is now confronted with the battle of his career to retain his Senate seat. Louisiana holds its Democratic primary Sept. 13. Two years ago Huey Pierce ("Kingfish") Long, State boss, turned bewhiskered old Joseph Eugene Ransdell out of the Senate to get his seat. This year Senator Long has picked a neophyte Representative named John Holmes Overton to turn out Senator Broussard, give himself complete domination of Louisiana's Senatorial delegation. Campaigning vigorously, Senator Broussard has been denouncing the Long economic theories as Communistic, promising...
Conspicuously present at the dedication of Louisiana State University's new $2,500,000 Medical Center in New Orleans last May was Louisiana's self-styled political "kingfish," Senator Huey Pierce Long. Conspicuously absent were officials of Tulane University, who thought Senator Long was meddling with medical education for political reasons, that nearby L. S. U. was a trespasser in New Orleans. Last week Louisiana's simmering medical pot boiled over...