Word: kingfisher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Baton Rouge last week, before the 33-story capitol he built, a bold, 14-ft. statue of Huey P. Long was hoisted into place over his grave. Thus fixed in imperishable bronze, the Kingfish stood staring, his expression suffused with a tenderness more than lifelike, over the Old Campus, Baton Rouge, the Mississippi River, and a good part of the State he had dominated. To erect the statue, the recently defeated, Long-machined legislature (which goes out of office next month) appropriated $50,000. A campaign for contributions had brought...
...Pure political propaganda for the Mackenzie King Government," fumed Ontario's Kingfish, who would like to make noise enough to grab the Liberal party leadership away from Mackenzie King.* "No party ... is going to get away with that sort of thing. If they want to show the extent of Canada's war effort, let them show the hundreds of thousands of unemployed who are walking the streets looking for a chance to enlist or find work in industry at a time when the very security of the country is at stake...
...press to visit the St. Thomas centre and see for themselves. But Mitch weaseled, refused to visit the camp, complained, "You might go to a house the day after a murder was committed there and find no evidence of a disturbance at all." In protest against the Kingfish's undignified antics, this week his right-hand man and Provincial Secretary, Harry Nixon, resigned from the Ontario Cabinet...
...story Capitol, free bridges where there had been toll bridges and ferries, free textbooks, the magnificent physical plant of the University. And one part of Huey Long's inheritance unemotional Governor-elect Sam Jones was never likely to invade: the folklore that Long inspired, the tales of his Kingfish cleverness and rascality gleefully repeated in country stores and country cabins, the vague, contradictory feeling that he somehow stood for the poor man ("Every man a king") that brought crowds out to hear him speak and put his picture in houses where there was nothing much else on the wall...
...Hepburn-King split is generally thought to be due to Mitch Hepburn's ambitions and personal jealousy. Ontario's Premier is a kind of Huey Long, and there is not room for both a King and a Kingfish in Canadian politics. As he submitted the condemnatory resolution last week, Mitch Hepburn said: "I stand firm on the statement that he [King] has not done his duty by his country and he never will. I am going to take my political future in my hands. If we are not reflecting the overwhelming sentiment of the people of Ontario, then...