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...still in the grip of lobar pneumonia. Having passed through several days of delirium, he did not know what day it was and he was too tired to ask. That was just as well. It was Election Day, and no one wanted to tell J. Thomas Heflin that at 68 he had again lost his chance to get back into the U. S. Senate...
...week's election for the Democratic nomination to fill the unexpired Senate term of Hugo LaFayette Black presumably meant a seven-year job because it tacitly carried with it a good chance for the nomination for the full term next year. For such a prime political plum, Tom Heflin, weary of the smaller jobs he had been given since his defeat in 1930, entered the race this autumn against Chairman J. Lister Hill of the House Military Affairs Committee...
...Heflin's chief liability was the loud and bigoted clownishness he displayed in both houses of Congress for 27 years. Lister Hill, reported candidate of Governor Bibb Graves's machine, had as his chief liability a zealous New Deal enthusiasm that led him last session to break with his southern colleagues over the wages-&-hours legislation. To voters Tom Heflin roared, "Send me to the Senate and I'll see that they don't pass the anti-lynching bill." But the idea of sending Tom Heflin back to the Senate for any reason whatever, according...
...feature, "Annapolis Salute," be it said for the general credit that the directors have presented some convincing, because honest and unsentimentalized, pictures of naval academy life. James Ellison, Marsha Hunt, and Van Heflin turn in careful performances as the principals. If one won't object to the inadequacies of the old Navy traingle of girl, rival, and loyalty to the service, the unpretentiousness of the picture will prove sufficiently gratifying...
These revelations probably bothered paunchy, white-vested Tom Heflin not at all. He was back in Alabama, working feverishly against the day next year when Mrs. Dixie Bibb Graves's term in the Senate expires, when the electorate may possibly put Tom Heflin on the payroll again for six long years at $10,000 per year...