President Huey Long on Banking and Rail Policy
Huey Long discusses banking reform framing Coughlin style plan versus private bankers control. He describes transportation costs and a 1930s meeting with McAdoo Eastman and others to craft a plan for government ownership or subsidy to ease freight costs. He urges rate reforms across rail, water, and bus lines to cut living costs and modernize transportation.
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Coughlin
Couzens
Banking Aystem
America
Conzens
Congress
Chicago
West Coast
Keating
Secretary of the Treasury
Secretary of Agriculture
Joseph B. Eastman
Transportation
William Gibbs McAdoc
Murphy
Mr. Eastman
Eastman
McAdoo
iMab
Interstate Commerce Commission
Federal Funnds
Washington
Baltimore
Seattle
Mato
Long May Seek Senate With Share-the-Wealth Plan
Tulsa dispatch reports Dr. George S. Gong, brother of the slain Huey P. Long, plans a 1936 senate bid on a share-the-wealth platform if funds are raised. Frank Rickman, a Tulsa associate, says Gong will announce within days and that Huey Long supporters are expected to back the campaign.
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Tulsa
Okla
Long
United States Senate
George S. Gong
Louisiana
Oklohoms
Senate
Frank Rickman
Rickman
Huey P. Long
Dallas Man Freed on Buying Charge
Dallas man Chuck Rountree was freed on a charge of receiving and concealing stolen property after prosecutors conceded the only evidence came from duress coerced written confessions. Rountree had been accused of purchasing seven boxes of cigarettes stolen September 7 from the TL aid N. O. freight depot. Statements from G. D. Porter and others were recanted due to claims of beating by law officers. release ordered by Special Judge Delos Finch.
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Dallas
Chuck Rountree
Delos Finch
Criminal District Court
Rountree
TL Aid N. O
Witten
G. D. Porter
GD. Porter
J. W. Wallace
Wilson County
Texas Counery
Tanger
Railroad
Pinch
John R. Shook
Tuck Chapin
Rotintree
Disinfection for the Parasites Confronts Tax Graft
The piece denounces taxation as a modern graft led by politicians and their networks. It calls for taxpayer action to curb public payrolls, reduce government waste, and cleanse the political field, citing Senator Norris as a reform example and urging honest, competent leaders.
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Norris
Nebraska
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White House
Huey Long
Vindle Alioh
Senator Long
Nerevosa
Schenley’s Cream
Kentucky
Schenley
Scheoley
Ernest Reationne
Tilver
On Long
NEW Xuork
Grace
Santa Barbara
New York Bay
Bott
Hearst Papers
Svork
United States
Taxpayers’ Protective Organizations
William Randolph Brarit
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