"The Pied Pipers" All last week the nation's attention was held fast by the performance of two politicians, a priest and a onetime plow manufacturer. No public issue of any consequence was involved. No principle was at stake. No precedent was established. No scandal was exposed. Yet the man-in-the-street watched and listened with the same fascination that would make him pause to witness a dog fight. When the fusillade of vilification, obloquy, traducement and backbiting ceased, the chief result seemed to be that Senator Huey Pierce ("Kingfish") Long had received the most thundering...
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