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...Still alive in every memory were Huey's thunderings at the New Deal, Huey's laws forbidding the spending of Relief money in Louisiana (since Mr. Hopkins would not let him have its spending) and the New Deal's retaliatory income tax evasion suits against the Longster tribe. By last week all that was changed. The President and his son were whisked away to Antoine's, famed old restaurant in the Vieux Carre, to eat Proprietor Roy Alciatore's specialties: oysters Rockefeller and Pompano en papillate. Only a small company were present, for too many...
...right Governor Leche (already "Dick" to him), on his left swart Mayor Robert Sidney Maestri of New Orleans, once Huey Long's Conservation Commissioner. Governor Leche, who two years ago was an unknown Long judge, now has hopes of a place on the Federal bench. Only other big Longster present was Seymour Weiss, Huey Long's onetime treasurer with whom the President cordially shook hands...
...them !" cried the Longster...
Nobody could put his finger on a dollar of it, but ever since the late Huey P. Long rose to power there has been persistent talk of the rich graft which his Louisiana political machine was supposed to be pocketing. Meantime the Federal Government has harried individual Longsters with one of the most spirited income tax investigations on record. Result was indictment last year of eight Long followers for income tax evasion. Last spring the Government warmed up with State Representative Joe Fisher, a petty henchman, put him in the penitentiary for 18 months. Last week it went...
...London, where the death of the Dictator shouldered the Ethiopian crisis aside, the sensational Star stormed that Huey Long "left no successor, no system, no ideas for development, but only a passion for guns." Louisiana observers regarded this as an extravagance. Beyond and above the Allen type of Longster was a predatory but polished political system whose chief danger lay in the fact that its boss had left not too few but too many successors. They fell into two classes: Insiders, functioning as behind-the-scenes manipulators of the tightest, most profitable political dominion the nation has ever known...