Word: kingfisher
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...show kids skulduggery in Louisiana during the years of the Kingfish, and tells of befuddled, unworldly Senator Oliver P. Loganberry of New Hampshire (Victor Moore), who goes to New Orleans to conduct a political investigation. As Loganberry has his eye on the White House, the Louisiana bad boys, as a way of silencing him, try to catch him off base with women. The Senator outwits them, but is finally brought to heel with a picket line, which the politicos insist "no Presidential aspirant will ever cross...
Twelve years ago, when Huey Long's political machine was abuilding in Louisiana, the Kingfish founded a weekly paper which he called Louisiana Progress. As Huey's horizon expanded, Louisiana Progress became American Progress, a daily...
...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...