Word: louisiana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate, with Huey Long absent in Louisiana, passed (68-to-16) the $4,800,000,000 work relief bill, sent it back to the House...
Most of last week Senator Long spent on business in Louisiana with the result that: 1) the Senate galleries were all but empty; 2) the Senate itself suddenly began to make progress on its legislative program. This positive popularity with spectators, this negative power with Senators, did not pass Washington unnoticed. To wiseacres there it was just one more significant proof of the important change, personal and political, Huey Long has undergone in the last few weeks...
...Kingfish" was soon exacted. Returning to the fray, the button-nosed Louisianian accused Senator Robinson of double-crossing him on patronage, asserted that President Roosevelt had told him [Long] to keep Senator Robinson "in trouble," revealed that Senator Robinson had made his brother-in-law Federal Rice Administrator in Louisiana. "Threatening to campaign against Senator Robinson's re-election in 1936, Huey Long declared: "I am going to Arkansas next year and I am going to ask for some of that pie." The "Kingfish" also raked from the past an incident which the Senator from Arkansas would much rather...
Still a glutton for parliamentary punishment, Senator Robinson told the Senate next afternoon: "I do not know whether my colleagues care whether I come back or not. But I am prepared to say now that if I have to continue to look at the Senator from Louisiana every day, if I have to hear him speak three or four times a day ... I think it would be a Godsend to me if in some way I got out of the Senate...
...know whether I would run for governor of Louisiana or whether I would run for the Senate." grinned the "Kingfish." "But I now announce that I will run for re-election to the Senate...