Word: kingfisher
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Smarting under his first big defeat in six years, Boss Long burbled: "Walmsley talks about fighting us. Why, he'll be trying to cry on my shoulder inside of a week. But there'll be no quarter this time!" week. But Now that they had the "Kingfish" down, his many Louisiana enemies lost no time in trying to get him out. At the Monteleone Hotel in New Orleans were 32 Federal in come tax investigators, sent by an un sympathetic Administration to probe Senator Long's finances. Two live slander suits pended against him in Washington...
...Kingfish" Long was not in Washington last week to yip defiance at his Senatorial foes or mess in a House investigation of one of his henchwomen. A House elections committee was considering the validity of Lallie Kemp's steamrollered election as a Representative from the 6th Louisiana District and finding it hard to believe Mrs. Kemp's statement that she did not know the Long machine was back of her until she "read it in the papers." By the time the week ended, Mrs. Kemp could read in the papers that neither she nor Jared Y. Sanders...
...connection with current movement to oust Huey "Kingfish" Long from the United States Senate, the Liberal Club yesterday sent a telegram to Senator David I. Walsh of Massachusetts, stating that they were absolutely in favor of the removal of this notorious senator from Louisiana...
...election. Suddenly last fortnight, Governor Oscar Kelly Allen, a Longster, called a special election, to be held eight days after his proclamation. He boldly named Widow Kemp as "the unopposed Democratic nominee because there will not be time to hold a primary." At this latest piece of the "Kingfish's" political audacity, the 6th District was hopping mad. At mass meetings voters shouted "Hitlerism!", screamed that Messrs. Long and Allen should be lynched...
...never put her hand into political mud, looked on with dismay at the whole scandalous proceeding. Then she took a hand herself, offered to resign as Congresswoman to stand for nomination in regular primaries if her opponents would abandon their plan to hold a "citizens' election." To the Kingfish, sitting in his New Orleans hotel room surrounded by bodyguards, the news of her offer was a severe jolt...