Word: louisiana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Huey Long has been at work on that business since he got himself admitted to the Louisiana Bar at 21. At 25 he was a member of the Railroad Commission of Louisiana. At 27 he got on the State Public Service Commission. At 34 he was Governor. At 38 he was U. S. Senator and political master of Louisiana in a literal sense that non-Louisianians cannot understand. In six years he ran the State debt up from $46,000,000 to $143,000,000 and doubled its annual operating expenses but today no responsible person in Louisiana dares challenge...
...close-knit organization like the parent company in Louisiana. For Huey Long has, practically speaking, no personal friends in official Washington. He used to go out sometimes with Senator Wheeler until Senator Wheeler decided he had better keep to quieter company. Although he is on speaking terms with every Senator, there are few members who relish talking to him. He has openly threatened to campaign in the next election against Senators Robinson, Harrison and Bailey. As a whole the Senate dislikes and fears...
...Share-the-Wealth movement is divided into two parts. Part I is in Louisiana where Share-the-Wealth meetings are part of the regular curriculum of Boss Long's ward heelers. There are clubs, organized by his workers, in nearly every precinct or voting district. All jobholders and would-be jobholders are assembled in a shabby little house. They have nothing to lose and may have much to gain by joining. Orders are to elect as many officers as possible, so each club always has a president, several vice presidents, a secretary and many committee chairmen. Then some young...
...political strength is that he is a cross between an unscrupulous Bryan and a political Barnum, a realist as well as an exhibitionist. He is a buffoon by policy but in his own line he is as smart as a steel trap. He has conclusively demonstrated that in Louisiana by finding a hundred ingenious ways to turn the institutions of democracy into the tools of absolute dictatorship. He is a master of writing jokers into laws. In the U. S. Senate he has made himself in three short years a master of parliamentary tricks...
...years. Has it been distributed? . . . God says there shall be forgiveness of all debts every seven years. Have we been forgiven our debts? . . . How many of you have three suits of clothes? . . . How many have four good suits of underwear? . . . Never has a man gone to the Senate from Louisiana who has uttered the oratorical and rhetorical gems uttered by Senator Huey P. Long. . . . I've slept with him, eaten with him, talked with him, prayed with him and I know he is a man of God. All we need is 20,000,000 ballots." Lots of Share...