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  1. Classic Senate Speeches. Huey Long. Every Man a King. February 23, 1934. Adapting his rhetoric to the techniques of broadcasting, Louisiana senator Huey P. Long used a nationwide radio address to spread his ideas about the redistribution of wealth. "I can't remember," Huey P. Long reminisced in 1935, "back to a time when my mouth wasn't open ...

  2. Huey P. Long. Every Man a King -- Radio Speech to the Nation. delivered 23 February 1934. click for pdf . Is that a right of life, when the young children of this country are being reared into a sphere which is more owned by 12 men that is by 120 million people?

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  4. In 1934, the Senator began to build a national organization (the Share Our Wealth Society with “Every Man a King” as its motto) to help him run for the presidency in his own right in 1936. His populist (and widely popular) program promoted economic policies designed to soak the rich to assist the poor. Among many other things, he argued for ...

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  5. The American Yawp Reader. Huey P. Long, “Every Man a King” and “Share our Wealth” (1934) Amid the economic indignities of the Great Depression, Huey P. Long of Louisiana championed an aggressive program of public spending and wealth redistribution. Critics denounced Long, who served as both governor and a senator from Louisiana, as a ...

  6. Oct 17, 2020 · A rare version of "EVERY MAN A KING" recorded live on-radio during one of Senator Long's national radio addresses. A substantial amount of editing has been d...

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  7. Every Man a King. by Huey P. Long. 1934 (Radio Broadcast) 10th Grade Lexile: 1390. Font Size. 8a16229 by C. Thomas Anderson is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. [1] Is that a right of life, when the young children of this country are being reared into a sphere which is more owned by 12 men that is by 120 million people?

  8. Every Man a King. “Every Man a King” is the title of a speech delivered in 1934 by Senator Huey Long of Louisiana. The speech, which Long delivered on national radio, is one of Long’s most famous speeches, along with his “Share the Wealth” speech. Long, a populist politician, used the speeches to rail against the concentration of ...

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