Word: broussard
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Died. Edwin Sidney Broussard, 59, onetime (1921-33) U. S. Senator from Louisiana; of a heart attack; in New Iberia, La. Onetime friend and patron of Huey P. Long, Broussard found himself beaten for re-election by the Long machine in 1932, protested loudly and futilely to the Senate...
Shifting his quid of tobacco from one cheek to the other. Senator Tom Connally of Texas last week laid before the Senate a 14,000-word report on the conduct of the 1932 Louisiana Democratic primary which John H. Overton won, which Edwin S. Broussard lost. Those who expected the Democrat-controlled Senate investigating committee to soft-pedal party scandals in the Pelican State were disappointed. Chairman Connally described the Huey Long machine, which elected Mr. Overton, as "vicious, deplorable and damnable." "I advise anyone who thinks he knows something about politics," said the Texan, "to go down in Louisiana...
Suddenly a bright idea hit practical Senator Logan. "There is not one line of a charge against Senator Overton with the U. S. Senate yet," he recalled. Senator-reject Broussard, whose accusations had been filed with the Senate committee, although he had not formally contested the election, was advised that charges should be brought "on behalf of the people of Louisiana" to the Senate. The widespread belief that the none-too-courageous Senate committee, in the face of overwhelming evidence of political wrongdoing, was foxily preparing a technical "out" for itself stirred up equally widespread resentment and rage in Louisiana...
Other testimony: a policeman voted three times in New Orleans; Overton workers marked ballots for voters outside the polling places; a blind man who tried to vote for Broussard had his ballot snatched away by an Overton lieutenant...
Offended by the bargeman and butcher-boy atmosphere of the hearings, one by one Plaintiff Broussard, his counsel and the Honest Election League had by last week withdrawn from the investigation, declaring that it "had degenerated into an effort to purify Huey Long...