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...rotunda. (The spot picked for this ceremony was under a portrait of Pocahontas, facing pictures of the surrenders of Cornwallis and Burgoyne, the signing of the Declaration of Independence.) Bush-bearded Representative Tinkham of Massachusetts asked to be assured that the royal visit portended no entangling alliance. Courtly Senator Ashurst promised everyone that he would bow low as usual, said his head is always "unbloody but bowed...
...slaveholder, stringy, hard-jawed Hatton Sumners, 63, is a self-taught authority on law and history (specialty: the 13th Century). When he rises to speak, the House hushes. On an automobile ride in 1937 with the late Majority Leader Joe Robinson, Speaker Bankhead, Majority Leader Sam Rayburn and Senator Ashurst, he announced the first serious opposition to President Roosevelt's plan for altering the Supreme Court by saying: "Boys, here's where I cash in." He would not receive the Court bill in his committee and forced the Senate to consider it first...
...Senator Ashurst, chairman of the Judiciary Committee: "Frankfurter in probably one of the most superb intellects in the country...
...qualms have lately been eased. A committee of eminent judges and attorneys (including President Arthur T. Vanderbilt of the snooty Judiciariat Society) has drawn up a compromise whereby the U. S. Judiciary's financial officer will be safely insulated from the Supreme Justices. Senator Henry Fountain Ashurst expects to have this measure passed soon after Congress meets in January. The judges therefore must figure their need for the coming fiscal year, and Justice Roberts asked those in his bailiwick to do so last week. Other justices presumably will do likewise in the circuits where they oversee legal business...
While sentencing a forger in Klamath Falls, Ore., Circuit Judge Edward B. Ashurst (brother of Arizona's polysyllabic Senator Henry Fountain Ashurst) digressed to criticize a bill for overtime submitted by Court Clerk Walter Hannon, called it disgraceful, intimated that it was not legal. Hopping mad, Clerk Hannon waylaid the judge on the courthouse steps a few hours later, beat the daylights out of him. Battered and bruised, Judge Ashurst summoned the Grand Jury into immediate session...