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...also have in this mail a letter from Heflin, Alabama, congratulating me on the correction which I sent to your periodical...
...Senate were mentioned, but as yet there seems no candidate to succeed Oscar W. Underwood-Underwood the conservative, Underwood who opposed Prohibition, Underwood who had little liking for the Democratic advances to the insurgent Republicans in the last Congress. Perhaps Alabama may elect a Senator as eloquently verbose as Heflin, or a fireeater like Harrison, or a damnation-downright man like Robinson, but it is not likely that they will discover another well-poised, equably disposed, able man such as Mr. Underwood. Indeed, had he chosen to run again, he would undoubtedly have had a hard fight and probably been...
...denied that the President had ignored him in presenting the name of Mr. Sargent for Attorney General. Senator Norris made a speech about the "Waterpower Trust." Senator Curtis, Republican leader, began to patrol the floor, looking for an opening to move adjournment. Senator McKellar talked about Muscle Shoals. Senator Heflin denounced The New York Times for editorially attacking the President for backing down on the Warren nomination, saying the President had been right in that. Senator Stanchfield of Oregon, with a pile of manuscript, began to read a speech about "homeowning banks," but he skipped a good...
...consideration was that Mr. Stone was confirmed as an Associate Justice, 71 to 6. The only Senators who voted against him were Heflin and Trammel (Democrats), Norris and Frazier (Insurgent Republicans), Shipstead and Magnus Johnson (Farmer-Laborites). Senators Wheeler and Walsh, both of Montana, asked to be excused from voting. With the exception of Messrs. Norris and Frazier (and Senator LaFollette, now in Florida for his health, but who, it was announced, would have voted against Mr. Stone), the Insurgent Republicans lined up with their Regular colleagues and with the bulk of the Democrats to settle the matter decisively...
...this Senator Heflin, great spokesman-Democrat from Alabama, made answer...