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...Senator from Louisiana." The large gilt clock over the Vice President's chair stood at 12:17 p. m. as Huey Pierce Long rose at his front-row desk and took the Senate floor last week. Before the chamber was a resolution to keep the ghost of NRA above ground for another nine months. If the resolution were not passed within four days, even that ghost would disappear and President Roosevelt would be left looking sick and silly. In high good spirits, therefore, Senator Long set out to make the President look sick and silly by talking the NRA...
...first two hours Senator Long stuck pretty closely to denunciations of NRA and Franklin Roosevelt, after which he blithely announced: "And I'm not half started...
Huey Long, badly frazzled, was ready to quit. Democratic oldsters of the Senate were also ready to trade him permission to march out with the honors of the filibuster if he would agree to a vote next day on the NRA resolution. When Senator Harrison went back to the rear-row neophytes and whispered the leadership's scheme, there was a determined shaking of heads. "Hell.no! We're going to stay here until Long drops in his tracks." An hour passed and Senator Schwellenbach asked another question...
More important last week than the passage of the resolution extending the remnants of NRA until April 1, 1936 was Senator Huey Long's filibuster against that measure. The filibuster resulted in Long's losing a fat wad of prestige, and the methods used to break his obstructionism, having once been found, are not likely to be forgotten, whereas NRA, as extended, can have no prestige, must be forgotten soon...
Through three prenatal stages went the resolution for NRA extension...