Word: ashurst
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...body packed with lawyers, nothing is more fun than a brisk game of splitting verbal hairs. One of the first to take up Senator Borah's challenge was Arizona's bland Senator Ashurst, who attempted to obliterate the Borah argument by a reductio ad absurdum which resulted in dialog that sounded like the Mad Hatter's tea party...
...Ashurst: Suppose the entire membership of the Supreme Court of the U.S. should suddenly become insane. . . ? Suppose there was something which would take the reason prisoner, and that each and all, en masse and en bloc, would become insane? Congress, of course, would grant them retirement privileges and retirement pay. Does the able Senator say the President could not nominate a new Bench...
...Ashurst: Suppose the Justices of the Supreme Court of the U. S. for their country's good should all retire en bloc, en masse...
...Vote. Senator Adams of Colorado walked forward, tossed the first slip of white cardboard into Carter Glass's hat. Andrews was second, then Ashurst, then Bailey...
...Item on Senator Ashurst's introduction of a bill for the deposit of "hot money" in closed banks "to thaw frozen assets...