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...Overton, Neb. any outsider who dared to bid at the foreclosure sale on Mike Thinnes' farm was threatened with a ducking in the horse trough at the hands of 200 farmer friends. Mrs. Thinnes bought in cows for 10? horses for 2?, tractors for 50?-at total cost...
...Georgia, Thomas G. Cutis of Minneapoles, Minnesota, August G. Curtis of Minneapolis, Minnesota, August C. Helmholzh, 2nd. of Rochester, Minnesota, Theodore Smith of Kansas City, Missouri, George F. Tittmann of St. Louis, Missouri, Egbert W. Fischer of Butte, Montana, Paul J. Allen of East Barington, New Hampshire, Douglas W. Overton of Concord, New Hampshire, Ramon N. Svoboda of Prague, Oklahoma, Richard M. Ballou of Providence, Rhode Island, John B. Hickam of Galveston, Texas, Lemuel Bowden, Jr. of Norfolk, Virginia, John H. Gilbert of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Frank A. Welty, Jr. of Dubois, Wyoming, John T. Repun of Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii...
...have an income of more than $1,000,000 per year; no beneficiary is to inherit more than $5,000,000. Incomes and inheritances are to be limited by Federal taxation. For that program in the next Congress Huey Long will control three votes?his own, Senator Overton's and Mrs. Caraway's?which is more than any Wall Streeter claims...
Last week blatant, bellicose Senator Huey Pierce ("Kingfish") Long reached a new pinnacle of power when Louisiana Democrats at their primary retired Senator Broussard. Long foe, and nominated in his place Representative Overton, Long friend. With Louisiana in his pocket Senator Long announced that he was through with ''precinct brawls" and was now going to the country at large to campaign for Franklin Delano Roosevelt. On the stump the Long theme song will be: "Rid America of Multimillionaires...
...career to retain his Senate seat. Louisiana holds its Democratic primary Sept. 13. Two years ago Huey Pierce ("Kingfish") Long, State boss, turned bewhiskered old Joseph Eugene Ransdell out of the Senate to get his seat. This year Senator Long has picked a neophyte Representative named John Holmes Overton to turn out Senator Broussard, give himself complete domination of Louisiana's Senatorial delegation. Campaigning vigorously, Senator Broussard has been denouncing the Long economic theories as Communistic, promising the people revision of the Jadwin flood control plan. That he did not expect to win the primary was indicated when...