Word: longster
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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...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...