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...change in voting strength in the Senate was small. There were five more Republican Senators than there had been a year ago-28 in all. There were eleven brand-new Senators. Youngest: Nevada's handsome Berkeley Bunker, 34. Conspicuously missing was more than one doughty lawmaker: Ashurst, Burke, Minton, Holt...
...Newshawk Joseph Ball of Minnesota (35) its Mormon quota had gone up. Already sitting were Saints William H. King and D.Thomas of Utah. Lame Duck King will be replaced Jan. 3 by chubby Saint Abe Murdock. One indirect Mormon loss: the passing from politics of Mormon-admiring Henry F. Ashurst of Arizona...
Ernest W. McFarland of Florence, Ariz., who beat Polysyllababbler Henry Fountain Ashurst to the Democratic nomination, is 45, ruddy, big-fisted, almost 6 ft., 180 lb., sober of habit, awkward but sincere in oratory. A county judge, he drawls, rides well, owns several farms and believes Communists should not vote...
When you mentioned Arizona's Senator Ashurst orating to the cacti in the Sept. 23 issue of TIME, it prompted us to inform you that Flagstaff, the honorable Senator's home town, has no cacti, being 7,000 feet elevation and in the heart of the largest pine forest in the world. Cacti such as the Senator would lecture to, as you state, do not grow at such an elevation. Flagstaff has neither cacti nor reptiles as one naturally expects in Arizona...
...year-old Senator, whose going will leave no hole in the sky but will take something fresh and honestly wise from Washington, had some advice for his colleagues. Said Ashurst, solemnly: "... I shall not waste any time on such miserable twaddle as to say that I ought to have been elected. ... It is the undoubted right of the people to change their servants, and to remove one and displace him with another at any time they choose, for a good reason, for a bad reason, or for no reason at all. If we are to remain a free people...