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...SENATOR HEFLIN (Dem.): "Very well in some particulars, woefully weak in others...
...proposal that the U. S. should enter the World Court with reservations, the Senate had refused to agree by a two to one vote. Indeed, the Senate had adjourned without the customary vote of thanks to the rather insignificant, the entirely silent, the "stern and rockbound" Vice President. Senator Heflin, the ebullient Alabaman, had prevented it because the Vice President had sustained a point of order of the learned senior Senator Lodge from Massachusetts and had, thereby, as Mr. Heflin put it, "participated in a rape of the rules of the United States Senate." But nobody cared greatly; even...
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...Democratic side of the aisle, in the rear row, Heflin of Alabama shone, his elephantine frame resplendent in cream colored pongee. Ever and anon the great chider would burst forth in oratory, belaboring the Republicans ?regular and insurgent?making the galleries laugh. When a Republican rose in reply, and there seemed any possibility of a successful counter attack, Caraway of Arkansas interposed. He wandered from seat to seat, with his hands in his pockets, or walked like a monk in the monastery yard? head bowed, hands held before him? stopping only to drawl an apt, ironical remark...
...Heflin, native Alabaman, being more accustomed to the wiles of Southern ladies, interposed, at this tense moment in the scene, with a few apt phrases...