Word: kingfish
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...brother's political battles for him too (once Earl nearly chewed off the finger of an opponent, another time lunged at a man and bit him in the throat). Yet, even at the peak of Huey's power, Earl was still in the shadow, forbidden by the Kingfish to climb the higher reaches. Their falling out was bitter; to Earl, Huey was "the yellowest coward that God ever let live...
...factories to higher teachers' pay. His opponents, avowed segregationists all, blamed "Faubusism" for the greatest flight of people from any state in the past decade, but Faubus expertly used the formula of paternalism and social welfare that long spelled success for Louisiana's late Huey ("Kingfish") Long. His victory, said the Arkansas Gazette dolefully, meant "the emergence of one political figure to dominate the state's politics as it has never been dominated before...