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...Deal leaders of Congress- Leader Robinson of the Senate, Speaker Bankhead of the House, and others such as Chairman Ashurst of the Senate Judiciary Committee-had declared for a constitutional amendment to achieve such aims. But the expression of pleasure on their faces suddenly changed to surprise at Franklin Roosevelt's next words: "During the past year there has been a growing belief that there is little fault to be found with the Constitution of the United States as it stands today. The vital need is not an alteration of our fundamental law but an increasingly enlightened view with...
...harness with convict labor at Kentucky's Eddyville penitentiary, was seeking legal authority to make the railroad accept 25 shipments of horse collars & harness which it had refused. But the issue at stake was far bigger than it looked. The railroad's refusal was based on the Ashurst-Sumners Act, passed in 1935, forbidding the shipment of convict-made goods into states which forbid its sale...
...clerk began calling, bells rang in the corridors to summon vagrant Senators. "Guilty," said Senator Adams. "Guilty," said Senator Ashurst. "Not guilty," said Senator Austin...
...Washington made his way quietly into a Senate Gallery, sat down behind two visitors. On the Senate floor below, Louisiana's Long was in the midst of his filibuster which marked the closing hours of the Senate session. Next to him sat Arizona's white-suited Ashurst and just beyond, Oklahoma's blind Gore, his head attentively lifted. In his frontrow aisle seat slouched Senate Leader Robinson, disgusted beyond words at the "Kingfish's" performance. Around the walls of the chamber stood Representatives who had come over from the House to watch...
Long: I want to find out how popular I am in this body. [Laughter.] I want to know. If it should get back to Louisiana that the Senators are sitting here this evening listening to me, after I had been speaking for seven hours- Arizona's Ashurst: Is it not true that the Senator's present popularity is about as great as that of a cuckoo clock in a boys' dormitory at 3 o'clock in the morning...