Word: ashurst
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...joyously accept the verdict of my party ... I shall possibly be enjoying the ecstasy of the starry stillness of an Arizona desert night," said Henry Fountain Ashurst, "or the scarlet glories of her blooming cactus, the petrified forest which leafed through its green millenniums, and put on immortality 7,000 years ago." That was in 1940 when Orator Ashurst, defeated for reelection, was delivering his swan song in the Senate. Last week, 14 years later, Ashurst, lively and loquacious as ever at 79, was still living in Washington. Widower Ashurst is a perennially popular extra man at the parties...
Loafers & Lobbyists. Last week there were more than 100 former Senators and Representatives, who, like Ashurst, were still around Washington. Some were in other branches of the Government; a few were making a lot more money than they ever made as Senators; some were just loafing and dreaming...
...votes they can deliver . . . Labor's lobby is today the most effective in the capital." Politicians will sometimes "go along with policies they don't believe in personally for votes, but almost never for any other kind of gain." George thought Arizona's ex-Senator Henry Ashurst, one of Congress' greatest orators, summed it up. After making an impressive fight for a cause he sincerely believed in, Ashurst abruptly switched. Said a colleague: "Thank God, Henry, you have seen the light." Said Ashurst: "Oh, no ... I felt the heat." Says George: "People who think the mighty...