Word: kingfisher
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...Even the Kingfish's hunched-shoulder, open-palmed gestures came easy, and he was just as natural about wrapping a friendly arm around a farmer and calling him by his first name. But one thing was different: Russell was not promising to make every man a king; he was sticking to the respectful, respectable demeanor which had surprised Washington during his first two years in his father's old Senate seat...
This time the legislators also jumped on the Item. Invoking a constitutional clause that not even the Kingfish himself had ever used, the Senate by a vote of 31 to 4 moved to cite Editor Clayton Fritchey of the Item for "disrespectful, disorderly or contemptuous" conduct toward the legislature. Maximum penalty: ten days in jail...
...jammed into the high-school gymnasium. There, over a $6 roast beef dinner, they listened to some famed Texans (including U.S. Senators Tom Connally and Lyndon Johnson) praise a fellow Texan in terms extravagant even for the Lone Star State. Said ex-Governor William P. Hobby: "He is the kingfish of free enterprise." Added Governor Allan Shivers: "He is Mister East Texas...
...Kingfish" is big (6 ft., 200 lbs.), shy, pink-cheeked Ernest Lynn Kurth, 64, a jack of all trades-lumber, insurance, banking, theaters, construction, utilities, machinery-and master of all as well. Kurth's dozen-odd enterprises employ 3,250, indirectly support 50% of Lufkin's population. But the Kurth achievement that most East Texans boast about, and the one that is of prime importance to the Southern economy, is newsprint. Set up only nine years ago as the South's first newsprint producer, Kurth's $18 million Southland Paper Mills, Inc. last week was rolling...
...helping Uncle Earl get elected governor of Louisiana last winter, 29-year-old Russell Long was not above pausing to speak enthusiastically about himself. He reminded Louisiana voters that he was Huey Long's oldest son, and strongly intimated that he was the true heir to the departed Kingfish's domain. This summer, when he set out to run for the U.S. Senate, he made the inference even plainer by continually speaking of "Me and Earl...