Word: heflin
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...correspondents assigned to the Senate gazed down from the gallery back of the Vice President into the face and figure of Senator Heflin. The Senator was talking of them. Stung to his feet by the bantering of Senator Copeland of New York, he had risen to renew his attack upon the Catholic influence (TIME, Jan. 31). He had predicted that Dr. Copeland (red carnation) would lose his seat "unless he did some toe-kissing before the next election...
...Sunday audience in Baltimore, Senator Heflin said: "There are so few wet advocates in the Senate they could be put inside a taxicab...
...Heflin: "The Senator may proceed, because I am going to speak when he is through...
...Heflin replied, waving his arms like a fretful windmill, pushing a bound volume of newspapers off his desk, knocking the spectacles from Senator Mayfield's nose...
Senators Walsh of Massachusetts and Ransdell of Louisiana, both of whom are Catholics; and Senator Robinson of Arkansas, Democratic floor leader, proceeded to administer well-mannered reprimands to Senator Heflin. Senator Ashurst of Arizona added the final rebuke...