Word: kingfisher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been the juvenilities of West Virginia's Rush D. Holt. Next week-one day before the anniversary of Long's death-Georgians will have a chance to supply the nation with a Senate successor who comes considerably closer to matching the talents and temperament of the late Kingfish. To oust Senator Richard Brevard Russell Jr., 38, from his comfortable seat in the Democratic primary (as good as election) is the supreme purpose of Governor Eugene ("Our Gene") Talmadge, 51, and a large but indefinite number of Georgians...
...sidestepping an investigation of his career as Mayor; one wonders how far he expects to go in spiking the guns of any opposition. The Governor has been called a "cheap imitation of Huey Long", but he may turn out to be an extremely expensive imitation of the late lamented Kingfish if Massachusetts voters fail to take warning from the signs that now point to a future government that will be fascistic in all but name...
...have had particularly fine fishing at Caicos. Large kingfish, groupers, mackerel and barracuda. We are now proceeding on Potomac to Mariguana Island and will try the fishing there before sunset. Having fine weather and pleasant seas...
...Lady from Louisiana remarked: "That's fine. That's very fine." On the rare occasions when newshawks sought out Mrs. Long during her hus band's turbulent lifetime, she liked to say that she was "just a nice Irish girl named Rose McConnell" when the future Kingfish met & married her. Born on a farm near Greensburg, Ind., she was taken by her parents to Louisiana at 10. Though Huey Long recorded in his autobiography that he met Rose McConnell while attending school at Shreveport and married her a year later at 19, the tale is firmly imbedded...
...primary day the Longsters happily touched off the "Kingfish's" electoral cannon. Hours before the polls were scheduled to close, election officials quit counting the votes. Since radio reports had assured them that the primary was in the bag, they merely bundled up the ballots and sent them off to Baton Rouge for the official count due by law eight days after the voting. With accurate returns lacking, at least a 2-to-1 victory was certain. In life, Huey Long had never done so well for himself...