Word: ashurst
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House let the Senators fight it out, this session, and a long fight it was. California's Johnson introduced the bill in the early Spring. Utah's Smoot aided Arizona's Ashurst and Hayden, first indirectly, then directly, in delaying the debate. Maryland's Bruce and Tydings and Tennessee's McKellar helped the Arizonans too. But it was the orotund Ashurst and the dogged Hayden who, with desks stacked high with time-consuming documents, talked and talked and talked the bill to a standstill last week...
...Only two Senators accepted - Arizona's Ashurst, who later said, he would be out of town on the days Col. Lindbergh mentioned; North Dakota's Frazier, who asked if his two sons might...
...Senator. Senators Wagner of New York and Cutting of New Mexico are both brand-new Senators this term. The other New Mexican, Senator Bratton, and Senator McNary of Oregon were new to the Committee. The only old-timers besides Senator Walsh were Senators Kendrick of Wyoming, Pittman of Nevada, Ashurst of Arizona...
...they came ? ruddy Robinson of Arkansas, chief Democrat, to confer good naturedly with any who passed by; his lieutenant Simmons, of North Carolina, who looked very bored; small-eyed Watson of Indiana, quieter than usual; Connecticut's Bingham, a tailor's joy with suave words for every one; Ashurst of Arizona, impressive as ever; flowery Blease of South Carolina...
...week was rounded off with a leisurely, over-Saturday-and-Sunday-night Potomac river cruise on the yacht Mayflower. Distinguished super cargo included Senators Curtis of Kansas, Oddie of Nevada, Ashurst of Arizona and tall, clever Smoot of Utah; also Assistant Secretary of War Hanford MacNider and Mrs. MacNider, Commissioner R. K. Smith of the Shipping Board, and Mrs. Smith...