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Senator Henry Fountain Ashurst complains that his malady of shingles has not a high-sounding name (TIME, May 30, p. 40). May I suggest "Herpes Zoster" ... as a synonym to spirit, if not to body...
Sixty-three-year-old Henry Fountain Ashurst, U. S. Senator from Arizona, was recuperating in a Washington hospital from a case of shingles. Complained disgruntled Senator Ashurst: "It had ever been my hope, if incapacitated, to suffer from some affliction that might be described by high-sounding sesquipedalian words...
Arizona's Senator Henry Fountain Ashurst, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee who has publicly referred to himself as the "Dean Emeritus of Inconsistency," said to reporters: "If any President so far forgot himself as to appoint me to the Supreme Court, I would never take my place on the bench-because I would die of surprise." Next day the phonographic Senator told an autograph-beggar to write to his office. "I'll not only send you my autograph," said he, "but the greatest thing for insomnia you ever had-a set of my speeches...
While Washington observers saw in the Vinson appointment a Roosevelt gesture to the House less likely to backfire than the appointment of Senator Hugo Black to the Supreme Court, courtly Chairman Henry Fountain Ashurst of the Senate Judiciary Committee could not resist a sly dig as his committee received the appointments for confirmation. Indicating to newshawks that he might have to hold on them the extensive public hearings which Nominee Black did not get, Senator Ashurst put his old tongue in his cheek, observed: "You may say that the Judiciary Committee will proceed with exasperating slowness as has been...
Question of what Congress will make of this formidable program in the next six weeks, and of whether it will do anything much besides laying the groundwork for the regular session, was this week almost as mysterious as Senator Ashurst made it sound. The Wages & Hours Bill was last week exactly where it was last summer-tied up by an unfavorable House Rules Committee. Neither the farm bill nor the bill to create seven regional TVAs was clearly formulated. Executive reorganization looked like the first item on the calendar but on it also was something definitely not included...