'People just quietly took it in the Great Depression, but people won't do that nowadays' said in 70s

[The Magistrate]

22. Many Do, Ma'am, But To My Mind Mostly In Error

The biography by T Harry Williams, titled simply 'Huey Long' is, though now a half century old, still the best source for a proper appreciation of the man. His economic policies might well have come a cropper had he succeeded in becoming President, and his enemies would certainly have been made uncomfortable. But his enemies mostly ought to have been made uncomfortable. He got his start by making Standard Oil pay taxes to the state of Louisiana, which prior to his campaigns it had barely pretended to do. His programs of paved roads, free schoolbooks, a state hospital open to any, were met with vociferous hatred from conservative and corporate interests in the state, which on several occasions reached the pitch of armed resistance. He broke a crooked city machine in New Orleans which squealed to high heaven at the curbing of gambling and prostitution it had fattened on. There is question whether the man who murdered him acted alone, and no doubt several groups entered into conspiracy to achieve that end.