Word: nephew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Washington, Louisiana's boyish-looking Russell Long, son of the late Huey, nephew of Governor Earl and the youngest member (32) of the U.S. Senate, sent word to the homefolks: he would support Congressman Hale Boggs in the 1952 race for governor. Boggs, who is young himself (37), won his Congress seat in 1946 on an anti-Long reform ticket. It was one more sign that Russell Long was determined not to be a chip off the old block. Senators familiar with Huey's demagogic ways are impressed by Russell's dogged and unflamboyant performance...
...moment, Uncle Earl chose not to respond to Nephew Russell's heresy. But, barred by law from succeeding himself as governor, he was toying with the idea of running for lieutenant governor and towing a governor of his own choice on his coattails. Besides, he said, being lieutenant governor is "the best job in the state. He can go hunting or fishing any time he wants to. He gets $7,500 a year, a house to live in, an expense account equal to the governor's-and groceries...
...Nephew Russell's heresy was not left unreprimanded, however. From Uncle George Long, elder brother of Earl and Huey, came the rumble of family anger. "It is a peculiar thing and an astonishing thing," he cried, "to see the son of Huey Long politically in bed with such people-people who plotted day after day to get his father out of office . . . Huey Long's boy . . . has blundered into this monstrous error, this hideous mistake, but please don't hate this boy, you good old Long people of Louisiana ... He is young...
...sense, it is strange that it should be so: Arthur Goodhart is a U.S. citizen, who had every possible reason for staying right at home. The son of Manhattan Millionaire Philip Goodhart, and a nephew of Herbert Lehman, he went through Hotchkiss and Yale ('12), passed his New York State Bar exams with ease (he took Harold Medina's "cram course"). But right from the start, Arthur Goodhart was interested in something more than politics or private practice. His real passion: the great common philosophy underlying both U.S. and British...
...more grief. A libel action was planned by Silent Star Alice Terry, who, like the movie's heroine, played opposite Valentino in a film directed by her husband, the late Rex Ingram. Another suit was announced by Valentino's family-his brother, sister and nephew-who want redress for invasion of privacy and unauthorized use of the Valentino name...