Word: louisiana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last two weeks before the Legislature adjourned, Senator Long's brisk management of Louisiana's affairs bore him rich legislative fruit...
Last May the Louisiana Legislature convened in the new $5,000,000, 33-story Capitol at Baton Rouge for its regular 60-day biennial session. Down from Washington as State boss popped Senator Huey Pierce Long to see that things were started according to his will. His mission concluded in three days, Senator Long went back to Washington to resume his national duties. Thereupon the Legislature promptly fell into a do-nothing deadlock which lasted more than a month...
...hear debates in House or Senate. On the other was an electric gadget which, by means of red and green lights, told him how each member of each chamber downstairs voted. Senator Long may be mocked as a cheap demagog by the nation-at-large and his popularity with Louisiana voters may be on the wane, but at Baton Rouge he is still an autocrat. In a fashion which would have won instinctive approval from Benito Mussolini, he began to get things done...
...loud and long were the wails of Louisiana newspaper publishers, most of whom mortally hate & fear Huey Long, when the Senator prepared a bill assessing a 2% tax on gross advertising revenues of all publications with more than 20,000 circulation...
Last week Senator Huey Pierce Long could tell all the debtor-farmers of Louisiana and any others who cared to listen, that, singlehanded, he had caused to be enacted a major measure for their relief. The measure was the Farm Bankruptcy Act which President Roosevelt signed just before leaving for his holiday. In the final hours of the last session of Congress, Senator Long, filibustered this non-Administration bill to a vote, and a vote meant passage. The latest device to hoist the U. S. farmer out of his mudhole of debt provided that...