Heirlooms, Rope, Pistols
As her grandmother pawned her gewgaws for gunpowder and tore up her cotton petticoats for bandages when the homeland was imperiled in 1861-65, so many a Louisiana lady was last week offering her most cherished heirlooms for sale to raise money to crush the boss rule of blatant, butter-nosed Senator Huey Pierce ("Kingfish") Long. By last week anti-Long sentiment was so bitter in the State that at a huge mass meeting in Baton Rouge, responsible citizens publicly urged the use of violence if their demands for economy and...
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