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...gave him a birthday dinner party. The Senate festivities started when New York's Senator Copeland, a physician, predicted that the Vice President was still physically good for many another year of service. South Carolina's Senator Blease hoped he would become President. Alabama's Senator Heflin called the Curtis career an "inspiration to youth" while Indiana's Senator Watson likened him to a "veritable Gibraltar...
...happens that my eyesight is seriously impaired and I frequently carry opera glasses to help out. I had anticipated pleasure in looking at, and identifying, many of the august (?) members of the upper house, including Borah, Glass, Tom Tom Heflin who mortally fears, etc. Imagine my chagrin when I lifted my glasses to my eyes, to be told by the doorkeeper that it was verboten to make use of opera glasses in the Senate galleries...
Alabama. Banished from his party primary by 27 members of the Democratic State Executive Committee because he deserted Smith in 1928, Senator James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin, who mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope, returned to his State to open a campaign as an independent candidate for reelection. Said he of the "misguided 27": "I'm sorry for them. How pitiful is their lot! How ashamed they must be feeling. . . . But Old Tom will show them the proper way to the light...
Inflamed by Harper's tales of Fascist propaganda and intimidation in the U.S., Senator James Thomas ("Tom Tom") Heflin of Alabama, apostle of 150% Americanism, bellowed in protest, demanded an official Senate investigation. The U. S. State Department made quiet inquiry, dropped official diplomatic hints at Rome. Last week, wilting as Fascism so often does before genuine opposition, 93 chapters of the Fascist League of America disbanded. In New York reporters assembled at the league's headquarters to see the Fascist League's emblems and insignia shipped back to Rome...
Vengeance for bolting the Democratic Party in the last presidential election fell on Senator James Thomas Heflin of Alabama last week when the State Democratic Executive Committee read him out of the party (27-21). The 120,000 rank-and-file Alabama Democrats who voted for Hoover were not drummed out of camp, only warned that a vote in the primaries would be a promise of party regularity. Leader Heflin paid the penalty to which leadership is liable...