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...geet's Wildcat...
...Huey P. Long, 36-year-old political wildcat, was nominated for the Senate over veteran Democratic Senator Joseph Eugene Ransdell by a 35,000 majority...
...wangled his way up in the hard-boiled Indian Service of Empress Victoria from Private to Sergeant Major, returned to help his father with house agenting, but drifted into Law. Thus when Frederick Edwin Smith was born at Birkenhead, on July 12, 1872, he inherited by right a wildcat's pugnacity and brawn, an old campaigner's slyness, a lawyer's bent...
...Labor Day, New York, Philadelphia & Washington Airways established "plane every hour" service (TIME, Sept. 8). Last week?the third week of operation?the company carried 1,202 passengers, an average of 172 per day (among them: Chilean Ambassador Don Carlos Davila, Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, a baby wildcat, presidents of seven corporations, two infants in arms). Proudly, officials of the company compared that with the latest available average of all air lines operating across the English Channel? 118 per day. Traffic for the week was 65% of capacity...
Louisiana. After a bitter, vituperative, disorderly campaign Governor Huey P. Long, 36-year-old political wildcat, was nominated for the Senate over veteran Democratic Senator Joseph Eugene Ransdell by a 35,000 majority. Senator Ransdell's white goatee quivered with amazemen when "plain people" from "back up the bayous" voted him out of office for the first time in 46 years. Rarely in press or forum had a candidate been as roundly abused as Governor Long. He was called a "disqualified, discredited, inexperienced, erratic, boastful young braggart." Voters were warned that, if nominated and elected, he would "degrade...