Huey Long: "Every Man a King" Address - Milestone Documents

Huey Long: “Every Man a King” Address

( 1934 ) Commentary by Carl Rollyson, Baruch College, The City University of New York

Glossary

impressing forcing
ipse dixit describing baseless claims; the Latin means “he himself spoke”
N.R.A. and P.W.A. and C.W.A. and the U.U.G. and G.I.N in a play on the many acronyms for New Deal programs (nicknamed “alphabet soup” agencies by detractors), references to the National Recovery, Public Works, and Civil Works administrations along with two fictional agencies

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