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Washington correspondents, irritated by the tedious roaring of Senator Heflin of Alabama, have sometimes agreed to keep "his speeches "off the wire." He has been called a modern Ben Gunn,* a "stuffed white waistcoat" and even a "flat tire"; but his oratory is unpreventable. Last week his subject was an alleged $1,000,000 fund of the Knights of Columbus to carry on war propaganda against Mexico; his words might have been confined, unnoticed, to the Congressional Record, had not leading Democratic Senators risen to rebuke him. For three hours, Democrats talked. Republicans smiled, walked in and out, said nothing...
...Heflin: "The resolution [to raise the $1,000,000] speaks for itself. It was passed by the Knights of Columbus, who, of course, are Catholics, and the whole trend of the resolution shows a plain desire...
...TIME were to speak quite casually and parenthetically of "an address by Sen. James Thomas Heflin, the greatest statesman since Lincoln," its error would be no more astounding...
Sirs: I agree with Newsstand-Buyer Pope (TIME, Jan. 3) as to only one of his "ten biggest" U. S. citizens - namely Chief Justice Taft. The other nine should be: "Big Bill" Edwards Irvin S. Cobb "Fatty"; Arbuckle Senator Heflin "Pudge" Heffelfinger-* "Phonzo the Fat Man" "Beppo the Big Boy" Elisabeth Marbury, The Doorman at Connie...
...That is one of the reasons," shouted Senator Heflin, "why they wanted to get rid of Jess Smith...