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...upon the nomination list if a petition bearing 25 names is submitted to the council before Monday night. Richard N. Clattenburg '35, Arthur Willis, Jr. '35, and Frank E. Wood '35 are the third year men selected, and William D. Locke '36, George T. Skinner '36 and Douglas W. Overton '36 make up the sophomore nominees...
...organizing anti-Long clubs. The scrappy Women's Committee of Louisiana retained General Samuel Tilden Ansell, dismissed prosecutor of the Senatorial investigation of Louisiana politics, and John G. Holland, dismissed sleuth of the same committee, to press its ouster charges against Huey Long and his henchman John Holmes Overton in the Senate...
Shifting his quid of tobacco from one cheek to the other. Senator Tom Connally of Texas last week laid before the Senate a 14,000-word report on the conduct of the 1932 Louisiana Democratic primary which John H. Overton won, which Edwin S. Broussard lost. Those who expected the Democrat-controlled Senate investigating committee to soft-pedal party scandals in the Pelican State were disappointed. Chairman Connally described the Huey Long machine, which elected Mr. Overton, as "vicious, deplorable and damnable." "I advise anyone who thinks he knows something about politics," said the Texan, "to go down in Louisiana...
Since the report offered only the committee's observations on the operation of the Long machine, made no recommendations for Senatorial action against either Senator Long or Senator Overton, big bumbling "Johnny" Overton jumped up to congratulate himself on what he mistook for a validation of his election...
Promptly the militant Women's Committee of Louisiana filed an ouster petition against Senator Overton with Vice President Garner...