Word: louisiana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Enveloping Huey Long in a verbal flank movement, the General continued: "Of recent months there has been an open alliance between the great Louisiana demagogue and this political padre. . . . These two patriots may have been reading last summer's lurid story about an American Hitler riding into Washington at the head of troops. That would be definite to Huey because he knows what part of the horse...
Capitol reporters who knew his mettle and had heard him off the record had long marveled at the patience with which "Joe" Robinson had borne for two years the antics of the senior Senator from Louisiana. That patience now came abruptly to an end. Sticking out his pugnacious chin, Senator Robinson rose and bellowed his rage...
...Senate and the galleries have just witnessed a demonstration. Egotism, arrogance and ignorance are seldom displayed in the Senate of the United States. They require a measure of talent possessed only by the Senator from Louisiana. . . . Mr. President, it ill becomes a Member of this body to attempt to bulldoze his fellow Senators. . . . "I am perfectly content that General Johnson and the Senator from Louisiana may have their fight out in any form they choose. I think it would be rather in good taste ... if they should use the good old- fashioned way of settling personal controversies, rather than bringing...
...members of the University who spend much of their time in Washington have taken it upon themselves, it is thought, to instill in Huey P. Long the rudiments of "Harvard culture." Apparently seeing in the powerful and outspoken Senator from Louisiana a diamond in the rough, the gentlemen from Cambridge intend to polish...
...past year also point out correctly the attitude of the two sections of the country. While the six New England states nearly matched federal relief expenditure contributing an average of 45 per cent of all the money spent, the six Southern states, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Arkansas and Louisiana averaged a contribution of 3 per cent of all relief outlays...