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Death last week took from the Senate a quiet, kindly, able Southern judge, baggy-kneed, baggy-faced Marvel Mills Logan (TIME, Oct. 9). In jigtime the Senate this week got as his successor the nearest thing to Huey Long since the Kingfish was shot to death...
...July 15, 1935) to give Huey what still stands on the Senate's books as the most comprehensive dressing down administered in the chamber in modern history, a flaying executed so neatly and yet so politely, rich in classical allusion and historical anecdote, that the garrulous Kingfish was for once stumped for an answer...
...Docks (main employment centre of New Orleans), commissioner of police and fire, president of the Port of New Orleans, and most important, as one of the triumvirate (with Leche and dark, toughly shrewd Mayor Robert Maestri of New Orleans) which took control of the racy Long machine when the Kingfish died, Weiss was apparently beyond reach. He had won a victory over the Government in 1936 when the New Deal dropped charges of income tax evasion against him, on grounds that there had been "a change of atmosphere" in Louisiana. When such cynical atmosphere sniffers as Columnist Westbrook Pegler noted...
These were some of the 20,000 complaints which have poured in upon Louisiana's curly-haired Senator Allen Joseph Ellender, henchman of the late Huey Long and his successor in Washington. Allen Ellender lacks the Kingfish's political potency and likewise his flair for publicity. But last year he struck a workable vein of publicity when he agitated for a special Senate committee to investigate injustices in Civil Service promotions. He got his committee and $2,500 to finance it. Last week his hearings made headlines in capital dailies. His theme: Why pretty girls get ahead...
...comfortable plurality Russell Billiu Long, 19, older son of the late Louisiana Kingfish, won the presidency of Louisiana State University's Student Council. Able Russell Long, a Junior majoring in government, cut his political teeth last year when he got his sister, Rose Lolita, elected president of the Women's Student Association. This spring, aided by Shirley Leche, svelte niece of Louisiana's governor, he toured the campus on a sound truck, held forth over loud speakers, plastered university grounds & buildings with screaming handbills. Black-haired, curly-headed, handsome Politician Long acts so much like his father...