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Huey Long is the Senate's No. 1 Colorful Figure. School children of the future will know enough political theory to titter at the Kingfish's comic relief after wading through dreary pages on the National Recovery Act. But for the present, the prospect of a large overproduction of general and special Hueyana brings up graver problems of government control than does a wheat surplus. One wonders who pays for the rain of Huey pamphlets which is meant to soak the rich...
...appeared to beard the funny man in public. But someone blackened the Colorful Figure's eye one dark night in the washroom of a Long Island beach club, all in the true spirit of fascistic democracy. Although this fistic filibusterer, the Kingfish, in a spirit of pure research, has located him on a preferred list of J.P. Morgan, the financial wizard recently tried for financial witchcraft. Now in the egalitarian thinking of Mr. Long, to be on a Morgan list is to be Morgan-owned, and Mr. Morgan owns Collier's weekly. This was discovered by Huey when...
...Morgan was murdering impoverished grousies in Scotland and Huey was helping with National Recovery. Curiosity got the best of the Morgan editors however, so Collier's offered a cash prize and medal to the unknown soldiers of the Sands Point washroom, should be make himself known. Nor did the Kingfish let any scaweed grow under his finny big foot. He has written a friendly letter, open and anonymous to Al Capone (Morgan-owned) telling how that tax-dodger can become friendly with the big-men in his racket, it is headed "J.P. Morgan and Co Points Way for Capone...
...Dodge heirs for $146,000,000, the largest cash transaction in Wall Street history. In 1928, three years later, having operated Dodge at a profit of $40,000,000, the Dillon, Read Syndicate sold Dodge to Chrysler for the equivalent of $170,000,000 in Chrysler stocks. - ED. Piggish Kingfish Sirs: . . . TIME'S account of the Kingfish's washroom fiasco, not so clearly worded as most TIME articles, nevertheless left little room for doubt or imagination. It was both amusing and amazing to those of us who relied on newspapers for this information. No admirer of blatant Huey...
...Senator Long was in Milwaukee to address the convening Veterans of Foreign Wars. When a New York Sun reporter called the Senator by long distance telephone for his version of what happened, an angry splutter of unprintable profanity came over the wire. Finally from his Milwaukee hotel the Louisiana "Kingfish" issued a statement. Excerpts...