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        "Long, Huey Pierce, 1893-1935",
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    "ocrText": "-2-\nbuilding.\nThen we went on home and on to Louisiana where I looked at Huey\nLong's capitol building for the state. I didn't like it. I went to Lin-\ncoln, Nebraska, to see the new capitol building being built for that\nstate. I interviewed Mr. Goodhue, the architect. He was the most ego-\ntistical man I ever met, and I've met some real ones. He showed me the\nplans for the completed building and told me that history would say that\nthere were only three orders of architecture - Greek, Gothic and Goodhue!\nI had been told that there were five orders up to the time of Augustus\nCaesar, but Mr. Goodhue knew better.\nAfter all these trips and interviews, the County Court employed\nthe two great firms of architects in Kansas City: Keene and Simpson and\nWight & Wight, with Ed Neild as consulting architect.\nWe were lucky to obtain an hinest contractor, the Swenson Construc-\ntion Company, to build the court house. I had two tough inspectors to\nwatch the proceedings in Murray Colgan and Fred Canfil. Mr. Colgan was\na building contractor himself and a first cousin of mine on my father's\nside. He was honest, and I knew I could trust him. Fred Canfil was a"
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