Word: ams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Robinson: "... I have heard the Senator from Alabama a dozen times during the last year make what he calls his anti-Catholic speech. I have heard him denounce the Catholic Church and the Pope of Rome and the cardinal and the bishop and the priest and the nun until I...
Robinson: "Mr. President, I have the floor. I will yield to the Senator if he will courteously address me. . . . I am going to call a conference tomorrow, and I challenge the Senator from Alabama to come before the conference and move the election of another leader for the Democratic Party...
Robinson: "Yes; I did say that it was unworthy of the Senator from Alabama. . . . I say now to the Senator from Alabama, in moderate language, that I am amazed, I am amazed beyond the power of expression, that he would bring the name of a lady into this controversy, even...
Heflin: "I am responsible for it, and I resent the Senator?"
And so on, and on, and on. Senator Heflin had many last words, including raucous sideswipes at Candidate Alfred Emanuel Smith. One phrase made the galleries guffaw. "Mr. President," Heflin said, "I have no religious prejudice. I am simply a wholehearted American."