Word: kingfisher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With editorials, cartoons and jingles (such as above) the New Orleans States fought the rule of Huey Pierce ("King-fish") Long in Louisiana for the past five years. The wily Kingfish did not take this sort of thing lying down. He won over the Item and Tribune, whose Publisher James Mcllhany Thomson (son-in-law of the late great Champ Clark) had formerly opposed him. by giving the Thomson papers all State advertising, by forcing State employes to subscribe...
Sued. Huey P. ("Kingfish") Long, U. S. Senator from Louisiana; by Anne Ector Pleasant, wife of Louisiana's one-time Governor Ruffin G. Pleasant; for $250,000. Charges: that he defamed her character by arresting her without cause after ordering her out of the State House 1932, that he called her "a drunken, cursing woman." Chirped the Kingfish: ''That means that up to date I have been sued...
...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...