Word: longster
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More important political business kept Senator Long out of Washington. New Orleans was about to hold a Democratic primary for mayor, equivalent to election. At stake were Huey Long's power and prestige as State boss. In the field were three candidates: an independent, a Longster named John Klorer and Mayor Thomas Semmes Walmsley seeking re-election for the first time. Buzzard-bald Mayor Walmsley heads the Choctaw Club, New Orleans' Tammany. In 1930 the Choctaws joined up with the Long State machine but cut loose last summer when it became apparent that the blatant demagog...
...accordance with unwritten Congressional custom, Widow Lallie Kemp was endorsed by the Long faction to succeed him. Four other candidates also prepared to enter the primary to win a Democratic nomination which in Louisiana is the same thing as an election. Suddenly last fortnight, Governor Oscar Kelly Allen, a Longster, called a special election, to be held eight days after his proclamation. He boldly named Widow Kemp as "the unopposed Democratic nominee because there will not be time to hold a primary." At this latest piece of the "Kingfish's" political audacity, the 6th District was hopping...
...parishioners showed more invention. Only "ballot box'' they provided was a garbage can on Hammond's main street, labeled "Vote here if you want to." On a gallows in the Hammond town square they hanged a two-faced effigy. One face was that of the local Longster, Judge Amos Lee Ponder Jr. The other had a black eye and was labeled: LONG ISLAND HUEY LONG, Every Dog Has His Day. When the sun set on the revolting parishes, Mrs. Kemp had received 5,000 votes. Normal vote...