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...Swing-Johnson bill has passed the House. Arizona's two Senators, Ashurst and Hayden, prevented its passing the Senate only by a most heroic filibuster in the closing hours of last session. This session the bill has prime place on the Senate's calendar and Arizonans do not see how they are going to stop it again. A special engineering commission asked for by Congress last spring to make a final survey, has reported that the Swing-Johnson plans are entirely feasible, though perhaps $40,000,000 more expensive than estimated...
Arizona. Senator Henry Fountain Ashurst, famed Boulder Dam filibusterer, handily won his Democratic renomination. Democrat George Wylie Paul Hunt. Arizona's habitual (1911-19; 1923-28) Governor, was put up for an eighth term. If Arizona goes in November as in September, Senator Ashurst will be re-elected by three-to-one over Republican Nominee Ralph H. Cameron. Governor Hunt's opponent will be Judge John C. Phillips...
...House let the Senators fight it out, this session, and a long fight it was. California's Johnson introduced the bill in the early Spring. Utah's Smoot aided Arizona's Ashurst and Hayden, first indirectly, then directly, in delaying the debate. Maryland's Bruce and Tydings and Tennessee's McKellar helped the Arizonans too. But it was the orotund Ashurst and the dogged Hayden who, with desks stacked high with time-consuming documents, talked and talked and talked the bill to a standstill last week...
...more magnificent sentences, Senator Ashurst enunciated the whole spirit of a filibusterer, as follows: "Although of superb physical strength, you can take the heart even out of an elephant, the stomach out of an ostrich, and you may finally pierce the hide of a rhinoceros if you keep at him so great a time as the long and weary months that I have been practically on the gridiron, trying to prevent the great injustice this bill would perpetrate upon Arizona...
...Only two Senators accepted - Arizona's Ashurst, who later said, he would be out of town on the days Col. Lindbergh mentioned; North Dakota's Frazier, who asked if his two sons might...