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...these remarks about him, Senator Heflin replied in the Senate...
...chief incident of the passage of the resolution in the Senate was the baiting of Senator James Thomas Heflin, who had the resolution in charge. Senator Heflin has a fine political figure, almost comparable to that of Chief Justice Taft. Mr. Heflin moreover decks his eloquent proportions in a great cutaway coat with a light vest of cream or buff color. In hotter weather he varies his garb by wearing a light colored Palm Beach suit of ample proportions. He has a ruddy face, which he adorns with eyeglasses that dangle by a black cord. His manner is suave...
...Only slightly less remarkable than the touch of magic by which, on the stage, a live rabbit emerges from an egg omelet is the sudden transformation of the Hon. J. Thomas Heflin, of Alabama, from a fiery foe of the interests, an implacable enemy of the Republican party, the unwavering opponent of the Administration, the chief oratorical exponent of progressive Democracy, into a co-worker with Mr. Coolidge, a supporter of Mr. Mellon, a helpful aide to the harassed Smoot, a floor manager for the Administration...
Correspondent Kent, a red-hot Democrat but none the less a brilliant observer, naturally did not look with much favor upon this change in Mr. Heflin. He suggested a number of possibilities which might account for the change: 1) That Mr. Heflin found himself without an issue and did not know where to go oratorically. 2) That perhaps like his fellow Senator Pat Harrison* he had made some money during the recess. 3) That he may have read press comments on his speeches. 4) That he may have felt "a belated sense of futility." 5) That he believes it impossible...
...spoken three times on this matter and at no great length. From the beginning I have insisted on legitimate debate. In answer to the Senator from Alabama,-I would suggest Feb. 10 as a date to vote. I want to be sure not to cramp anybody." Senator Heflin, a Court supporter, thereupon interrupted and mentioned that, if necessary, measures for cloture (the stopping of debate so as to vote) might be taken. Vice President Dawes, who has been fighting for a better cloture rule, was in the chair, and Mr. Borah exclaimed: "I trust the Senator from Alabama observed...