Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...colleague in the Senate, James Thomas Heflin. Another distinction between these two-who are the Senate's most complete opposites except for the label on their politics-is that Senator Walsh, from rocky Montana, is the outstanding Roman Catholic Senator, while, as everyone knows, Senator Heflin from swampy Alabama mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope...
...reply, Alabama's Heflin, who mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope, erupted in the Senate with characteristically bad taste: "Alabama's Roman Catholic priest wrote this speech and this Romanized, purseproud, millionaire Governor of Massachusetts spoke it! The answer, in my opinion, is found in the fact that Governor Fuller's wife is a Roman Catholic...
...join in the regret of Senator Willis that Hoover has spoiled the unanimity of the Ohio delegates, whose unfaltering adherence to Willis might have gone down into history with Alabama's famous 39 votes for Underwood. Senator Willis is the only one to raise his voice against an opponent who holds favorite-son tradition in contempt; whatever the other planks in his platform, he is at least a gentleman of the old school, a lone surviving guardian of courteous politics. Even if, bravely fighting, he should go down, Herber Hoover has still to meet the national convention. In Kansas City...
Robinson: "... The trouble about the Senator from Alabama is that he takes himself so seriously that he thinks he can dictate to the whole Democratic Party what is right...
...Fourth-most illiterate is Alabama, home state of Senator James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin?...