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Three days after the inauguration, Louisiana's 72-year-old Senator John H. Overton-who had refused to back Earl in the election-died in Bethesda Naval Hospital. His vacant Senate seat gave the Longs an easy and unexpected means of strengthening their political hold on Louisiana. Governor Earl prepared to appoint a friend-probably a Monroe oil millionaire named William C. Feazel-on condition that the appointee would not run for the office after the interim term expired. In November, having achieved the Senate's 30-year minimum age, Nephew Russell would run, with every chance...
Louisiana's roly-poly John Overton objected: a sudden time jag would cause him to miss his favorite radio commentator (Lowell Thomas), and foul up the delivery schedule of his milkman...
...President," said Overton, huskily, "it seems to me that we should pursue the course that the God of Nature has prescribed. ... But here come the members of the Senate Committee on the District of Columbia, and like Joshua of old, they want to bid the sun and the moon to stand still. ... If the bill passes ... I will be tempted to insert in the Washington newspapers an advertisement-'Lost, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, one golden hour, set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward offered-it is lost forever...
Southern Democrats also rode the wind: McKellar's colleague from Tennessee, Tom Stewart, a stooge of Memphis' Boss Crump; Louisiana's John Overton, who had defended Theodore Bilbo six weeks ago; Texas' rambunctious Pappy O'Daniel...
...Overton growled: "The Senator from Ohio [Taft] is not yet the whole Senate, no matter what he may think about it." South Carolina's Burnet Maybank shouted hoarsely: "After all, Mississippi is a sovereign state." After all, Bilbo was Mississippi's choice. Bilbo slouched at his old desk, clutching his cigar...