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...nearly five months Huey Long has lain under the grass of the State 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...
...reason the League now is a reality is because there has been behind it the British Navy. Our superior sea power has not been transferred to the League; nevertheless, it has lain behind it and invested every debate and decision at Geneva with a gravity and significance which otherwise it could not have possessed...
...door, inhaled and pulled Joseph back out the door. When the police came, they found Mrs. Shipulo two weeks dead. When finally Joseph understood that his wife was not asleep, he went raving mad, was taken to a hospital psychopathic ward. In the mattress on which he had lain beside his putrefying wife, police found $1,620 cash, two Liberty bonds, a bankbook showing $350 deposits and a dozen mortgages...
...Paris arrived last week seven bodies that had lain for days in the wreckage of a French plane in the Great Congo Forest, had been mauled by leopards, lions, jackals and wolves, had been punctured by the proboscises of poisonous flies and mosquitoes, had been stripped of valuables by Banda Negroes and finally had been found by a Belgian search pilot, shipped down the Congo River to French Equatorial Africa's capital, Brazzaville, thence by rail to the seacoast, thence by sea to France. No. 1 of these seven corpses was the body of French Equatorial Africa...
...drowsy member of the 74th Congress had on Jan. 3 lain down to nap on a cloakroom sofa, and if by some miracle he had slept until last week, he would, on awaking, have had no reason to believe that he had taken more than three winks...