Word: louisiana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into the U. S. Senate Chamber on the same day walked Mississippi's Theodore Gilmore Bilbo with a black eye and Louisiana's Huey Pierce Long with a bandaged hand. Senator Bilbo said he got the black eye in an automobile accident. Senator Long said his hand was afflicted with "athlete's foot...
Huey Long has said that he thinks he will be a candidate for Governor of Louisiana next year. It may be that he was moved by fatherly pride at the smooth functioning of his Baton Rouge machine. But at least, it's a straw of hope...
...what no other member over did delayed taking his oath of office for nine months. Perhaps he feels that a withdrawal from the Senate will appeal to the American people; and it well may. Too, by running for Governor he could strengthen his fences in Louisiana. Whatever Huey's purpose was in this latest statement on his future, there is only one thing certain--he will never retire voluntarily from the national stage. Only when the patronizing American public, and the Louisiana portion of it in particular, decides to change its jester will the Kingfish really abandon the political scene...
...variety of motives, the opposition everrede resistance by a vote of 44 to 43. McCarran and other disciples of Mr. Green, of the American Federation of Labor, fathered the measure, blinded by a dogmatic adherence to the one high-wage scale for all workers. The buffoon from Louisiana, too tolerantly dismissed as a fool, whipped wavering Senators into line, from a much-heralded desire to "do anything" to thwart the administration. Republicans, acting with usual partisan tactics, voted almost as a block for the amendment. The appalling fact is that none of the opposition cliques knows how rapidly and determinedly...
Replied Senator Robinson: "I doubt whether either my speech or the speeches of the Senator from Louisiana have had very much influence or effect on public opinion in the United States. I have in mind an address made by Father Coughlin...