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Until last week, U. S. citizens could reasonably assume that Arizona's pentecostal Senator Henry Fountain Ashurst was a nonpareil when it came to dressed-up language. Advices from Oregon showed that it ran in the family...
...election as circuit judge in Klamath Falls, Ore. is none other than Henry Ashurst's brother, Edward Bates Ashurst. Slight, dapper Judge Ashurst first got elected to the bench in 1934, tried vainly in 1937 to join his brother in the U. S. Senate. He continued to ornament Klamath Falls with his ten-gallon hats, his string ties, sideburns, frock coats, morning trousers, and the fanciest flow of language west of Henry Fountain Ashurst...
...Brothers Ashurst think up their own stuff, do no ghosting for each other. Says Brother Henry of Brother Edward: "He's a corker. He will say to a man he is sending to jail, 'My dear sir, I hate to do this when there are so many guilty men roaming the streets...
Outraged Senator Henry Fountain Ashurst, self-styled "peripatetic bifurcated volcano of language," wrote to Secretary of the Interior Ickes: "The press quotes you as saying Senator Vandenberg is the Senate's greatest mumbler of long words. Why did you do that to me? What have I done to you? You know very well that I am a greater mumbler of long words than Arthur Vandenberg...
Last week, modest, 65-year-old Mrs. Ashurst had a few paragraphs to herself in the newspapers which had devoted columns to her famed husband. At her home in Washington, after long illness, Mrs. Ashurst died. The Senator, for this occasion, found no words adequate...