Word: stagestuff
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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...measures by which "cheap and shoddy fellows" viz. Huey Long, achieve real political power in a great state; how they work their publicity, and what can be done to stop them. The triple-screw steamturbined kingfish is shown up by a Voltaire come for judging. It is all "stagestuff," one knows already, but this article shows how it is staged and how received. The thick-skinned Longs and "Big Bill" Thompson are not able to differentiate between the kind of publicity they want when running in the primaries, and when in the Senate or the Mayor's office. They spend...
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