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POLITICAL NOTES: Revolting Parishes

To add a new character to his political puppet show, Louisiana's Huey Pierce ("Kingfish") Long went up to Arkansas last year, stumped the State with a motorcade and sound truck, elected Hattie Caraway to the Senate seat of her late husband. Wild was the uproar of outraged Louisianans last week when button-nosed, pugnacious Senator Long set out to ride Lallie Conner Kemp into Congress on his ruthless machine.

Representative Bolivar Kemp of the 6th Louisiana District died in June. In accordance with unwritten Congressional custom, Widow Lallie Kemp was endorsed by the...

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