National Affairs: Wounded Widow

Month ago Mrs. Rose McConnell Long was called on for the first time to preside temporarily over the Senate. Last week the new Senator from Louisiana made her maiden Congressional speech, not on the Senate floor but in the privacy of a Public Lands Committee hearing. In pleasant contrast to the loud histrionics of her late husband & predecessor, it was a mild little plea for the passage of a bill to enlarge Chalmette National Historical Park, on the site of the Battle of New Orleans. "Had we not won that battle," said Widow Long of the great victory which Andrew...

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