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Chirped the "Kingfish": "I made about $25,000. ... I spent it for brass bands. football games and drinks for my friends. I.got some good...
...know whether I would run for governor of Louisiana or whether I would run for the Senate." grinned the "Kingfish." "But I now announce that I will run for re-election to the Senate...
...Three weeks before. Huey Long had spurred his attack on the Administration by demanding an investigation of its most vulnerable member. Postmaster General Farley. Charges hurled against "General" Farley by "Kingfish" Long were that he gave away free stamps (TIME, Jan. 21), was interested in a race track wire service, had accepted party funds from a man about to be tried for using the mails to defraud, had intervened to save a Kansas City gangster and a banking group, which included Ambassador-at-Large Norman Davis and his brother, from Federal prosecution, had personally profited from PWA contracts. Just after...
...across the nation rolled the nasal, back-country accents of the "Kingfish." "It has been publicly announced that the White House orders of the Roosevelt Administration have declared a war." cried he. "The lately-lamented, pampered, ex-Crown Prince, General Hugh S. Johnson, one of those satellites loaned by Wall Street to run the Government . . . was apparently selected to make the lead-off speech. . . . What is the trouble with this Administration? . . . They think that Huey Long is the cause of all their worry. They go gunning for me, but am I the cause of their misery? Well, they are like...
...propagandizing his Share-The-Wealth Plan. For his plan to make "every man a king" by limiting personal capital to $4,000,000, by guaranteeing at least $5,000 for a homestead and a $2,000 to $2,500 annual income to every family in the nation, the "Kingfish" claimed a galaxy of precedent...