Word: kingfisher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senator then rushed off to Baton Rouge to address a pep meeting in behalf of his political football team, Louisiana State University. The team was getting ready to trounce George Washington University in Washington, 6-to-0. In its absence, "Kingfish" Long proclaimed that the rally constituted a parish meeting, solemnly had Right Halfback Abe Mickal elected State Senator...
Into the lobby of New Orleans' Hotel Roosevelt, stronghold of the partisans of Huey P. Long, ventured Burt W. Henry, president of the Anti-Long Honest Election League. There he caught sight of John Holmes Overton, junior Senator from Louisiana and the Kingfish's short, pudgy henchman. Burt Henry suddenly remembered the day last winter when John Overton, on the floor of the Senate, had accused him of hypocrisy for representing the Honest Election League as nonpartisan. Said Henry: "If you do not apologize we'll go outside and settle this thing." On second thought he decided...
Week before the Louisiana State-Vanderbilt football game at Nashville, Senator Huey P. Long generously announced that he would finance the trip for 1,500 cadets, lend $7 to any other Louisiana State student who lacked funds. Purpose of the junket, said the "Kingfish," was to give the university a good name. At a student meeting, he gave out rules: "No liquor . . . no pulling the bell cord. . . . Don't take me lightly...
...Service commissioner, Senator Huey Pierce Long had mobilized Louisiana's entire national guard to insure a "clean election." He had also made his Legislature pass enough laws month before to turn over to his henchmen complete control of the electoral machinery (TIME, Aug. 27). No match for the "Kingfish" in legislative wiles, Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley had an augmented police force of 2,000 which nearly equalled Senator Long's militant manpower...
...Kingfish hastily concocted a Louisiana holiday celebrating the 16th anniversary of the day after the day President Wilson gave German Ambassador Count von Bernstorff his walking papers. From this fantastic episode Banker Hecht got considerable but not wholly dignified publicity...