"You've got until March 4 to pass this bill. Well, this bill won't go through before March 4. You can put that in your pipe and smoke it."
Beneath its crop of curly reddish hair the round pug-nosed face of Senator Huey Pierce ("Kingfish") Long of Louisiana glared pugnacious defiance across the Senate Chamber at Virginia's famed Carter Glass. The bill that "won't go through before March 4" was Senator Glass's to revamp the Federal Reserve system. Senator Long, opposed to its branch banking features, was out to talk it to death. He waved...
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