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...follow. Of course he was not the keeper of his plumber brother-in-law but he could not disavow him publicly. Now he could somewhat understand how Dry Senator Fess felt when his son Lowell was caught brawling in New York speakeasies (TIME, June 15), how Dry Senator Heflin suffered when his son Tom Tom Jr. misbehaved with liquor (TIME, July 1, Sept. 16, 1929, Oct. 27, 1930), how Vice President Curtis' son Harry had embarrassed his father by setting up as a go-between for public building contracts (TIME, June...
...arthritis ("aggravated," said he, "by the thrusts of Wet interests seeking to crush me") crutched his way down the 'aisle to take a seat on the platform. Night before, speaking in Atlanta Auditorium on "Prohibition Repeal Unthinkable-Shall the Officials Enforce the Law?," he had told his hearers, Heflin-wise: "I am almost sure to be indicted, because of the Roman Catholic district attorney at Washington...
...article's least complimentary part was gently ironic: "Thus did he add to the gayety of nations, the enlightenment of the people, and win the nomination." Its summary: "There was something of Cole Blease in him, and 'Cotton Tom Heflin, Al Smith and Hiram Johnson. . . . He was a force to be reckoned with." Above a reproduction of the original Tribune galley-proof, "Big Bill's" campaign managers wrote: "This biography . . . undoubtedly represents what the Tribune really thinks about Thompson. It was willing to tell the truth if he were dead...
Bitterly, passionately Alabama's Senator James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin harangued his colleagues last week on this theme: that the election last November at which he was defeated by John Hollis Bankhead was conducted with dishonesty...
Forthwith the Alabama House of Representatives passed a joint resolution declaring that: "The said J. Thomas Heflin has during the greater part of his tenure of office . . . made Alabama the laughing stock of the Union by his bigotry, lack of religious tolerance and the lack of many of the courtesies expected between one gentleman and another." The resolution expressed "condemnation of the very poor sportsmanship exhibited in being unwilling to admit like a man that he was defeated in a fair election...