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There he stayed. Senator Henry Fountain Ashurst became a Washington character. Tall, with the suave manner of a Shakespearean actor, he gave up his cowboy clothes for sleek, striped trousers, spade-tailed coat, pince-nez on a wide black ribbon. His speeches were orations, models of polysyllabic splendor. He described himself as a "veritable peripatetic bifurcated volcano in behalf of the principles of my party." But meatily between the thick-hunked verbiage were sandwiched slices of wit and wisdom. He was one man who dared to tackle rough-&-tumble Huey Long in debate on the Senate floor. He left...
...Ashurst's legislative road was an amiable meander. He voted both for the 18th Amendment and for its repeal, he voted twice for the soldiers' bonus, twice against it. Colleagues complained that his expressed views were contrary to the principle of Franklin Roosevelt's Court-packing bill, but that when the controversial bill came to Senator Ashurst's Judiciary Committee he defended it. Was that consistent? Said...
...Arizona was consistent about its senior Senator, four times returned him to the Senate. This year he was opposed in the primaries by stocky, good-natured Judge Ernest W. McFarland, farm boy, schoolteacher, lawyer. Ashurst, in the Senate, opposed conscription. McFarland, in Arizona, was for it. But McFarland made a bigger issue out of the Senator's long absences from the State. For the past ten years Ashurst has scarcely stirred from Washington. This year he did not even bother to go back and campaign in the primary. Few, least of all Ashurst, thought this indifference would make...
Next day, he rose in the Senate. The floor was crowded. Lining the walls were members of the House, who had heard that Ashurst was to deliver his valedictory...
Smiling, the Senator told his colleagues about the taxi driver that morning who had asked him what he was going to do now for a living. Said Ashurst: "I said, 'I think I shall sell apples. For almost 30 years I have successfully distributed applesauce in the Capitol. I ought now to be able to sell a few apples...