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Eager newsmen pressed about the prison for detailed news of Convict Sinclair's daily doings. An order was issued barring them from the jail. Washington newspapers became indignant. In the U. S. Senate, Alabama's ever-loud Heflin denounced "this truckling to a vulgar millionaire." The Sinclair privacy became an editorial issue. The order was rescinded, the Press re-entered the jail...
...Rejected (70 to 14) a resolution by Alabama's Heflin to condemn a nameless Brockton, Mass., bottlethrower (TIME...
Last week Senator Heflin tried, at length, to heffle the Senate into adopting a resolution condemning the nameless bottle-thrower and charging him, in effect, with attempted murder of a U. S. Senator. Religious debate again rocked the Senate chamber...
When Indiana's Watson, the Republican leader, tried to tell Senator Heflin that the Senate could not properly pass his resolution, the Alabaman, with bellowing surprise, asked if Watson wasn't the "finest old he-horse of the Klan." Senator Watson puffed and protested. Senator Borah rebuked Senator Heflin for bigotry, only to have the Democratic leader, Robinson of Arkansas, who has more than once rebuked Senator Heflin similarly, retort: "The Senator [Borah] can now speak of religious liberty, but you never heard him make such an eloquent appeal during the campaign. Then he was as dumb as an oyster...
...episode passed off as just another of the periodic Heflin exhibitions, with this difference: this time, in the State which has become identified with its senior Senator, the Alabama Women's League for White Supremacy promised to try to terminate the Heflin Senatorial career at next year's election...