Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is a tide in the affairs of men, and last week Franklin Roosevelt might well have thought it had set against him. Senator Robinson's sudden death was followed by the threat that his whole Court Plan might fail (see p. 10). A new fight over the majority leadership of the Senate impended, a fight in which it was likewise touch & go whether the President could have his way (see p. 12). On top of these things, the Lehman letter was a serious blow...
After a Senator's death, the Senate usually appoints a day when his friends may eulogize him. But when the Senate met at noon and his colleague, Mrs. Caraway, presented a resolution for a committee to supervise his funeral, 15 Senators rose one after another to pay spontaneous tribute to Joe Robinson. At the White House President Roosevelt, still in bed when the news was brought to him, rose on his elbow and dictated: "In the face of a dispensation so swift in its coming and so tragic in the loss it brings to the Nation...
Sorrow & Politics. For a week Joe Robinson had prevented the Senate from adjourning, had closed each meeting with a recess so as not to break the "legislative day," the fiction under which Senators were denied the privilege of speaking more than twice. Mrs. Caraway after announcing the death of her colleague, said, "I move the Senate do now adjourn" and a solemn chorus of "ayes" approved her motion. Thus ended Senator Robinson's drive for the Court Bill's enactment...
...more important, the heart had largely gone out of the supporters of the Court Bill with the death of their leader. Practical considerations moved other Democrats to feel that the death of Senator Robinson might be a political good fortune for the President, not only giving him the opportunity to appoint anyone he wished to the Supreme Court instead of Senator Robinson who had a virtual claim on the one existing vacancy, but also because dropping the Court fight might prevent a permanent split in the party. The speech of Hatton Sumners, which the House had so vigorously applauded...
...dear Alben:- ". . . Since the untimely death of our majority leader I had hoped, with you, that at least until his funeral services had been held, a decent respect for his memory would have deferred discussion of political and legislative matters...