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...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...
...Capitol lawn at Baton Rouge. Yet so deeply did he stamp his policies and personality on Louisiana that last week when half-a-million Democratic primary voters went to the polls to choose one man to be Governor and two to fill Long's Senate seat, the fabulous "Kingfish" seemed to walk abroad once more. Both factions of the State's Democracy still called themselves "Long" and "anti-Long...
...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...
...Senators who sat in the last session of Congress the one least liked by his colleagues was undoubtedly the late Huey Long. Had a secret vote for that distinction been taken, a runner-up to the Louisiana "Kingfish" would probably have been blind Senator Thomas David Schall of Minnesota. He was so unmeasured in his attacks on President Roosevelt, his wife and family, that even the sternest opponents of the New Deal shivered. But just as Senators were shocked by the assassination of Democrat Huey Long, so last week they were shocked by the tragedy that befell Republican Tom Schall...