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September 8, 1935

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THE PRE-WAR WORLD OF EUROPE; Robert Briffault's Novel Presents a Remarkable Picture of Its Society

By Louis Kronenberger

THIS novel, Briffault's first, has been awaited as an important event. Its publication proves it to be one. It comes as close as any writer using the English language has come toward depicting and interpreting, on a really large scale, the society of pre-war Europe. Here is Proust's world spread over an entire continent; here is the stuff of innumerable Edwardian memoirs given a sturdier form and a more imaginative expression.

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Notable Deaths

Carl Weiss

1935Carl Weiss, American physician (born 1906)[†]

Carl Austin Weiss Sr. was an American physician who assassinated U.S. Senator and former Governor Huey Long at the Louisiana State Capitol on September 8, 1935.

Historical Events

Huey Long

1935US Senator from Louisiana Huey Long is fatally shot in the Louisiana State Capitol building.[†]

Huey Pierce Long Jr., nicknamed "The Kingfish", was an American politician who served as the 40th governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1932 and as a United States senator from 1932 until his assassination in 1935. He was a left-wing populist member of the Democratic Party and rose to national prominence during the Great Depression for his vocal criticism of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal, which Long deemed insufficiently radical. As the political leader of Louisiana, he commanded wide networks of supporters and often took forceful action. A controversial figure, Long is celebrated as a populist champion of the poor or, conversely, denounced as a fascist demagogue.