Word: heflinism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Doheny and Fall are again free men. What seems to have been a fairly able jury unanimously acquitted them of charges of conspiracy. Mr. Doheny, leaving the court, delivered to reporters an heroic on the unbesmirched patronym he now passes on to his grand-children. True, Senator Heflin of Alabama shouted, "All law-ab ding citizens will hang their heads in shame at the verdict", but that was party politics, says the New York Tribune...
...successor one Walter Franklin George. Soon thereafter Washington correspondents, led by Clinton W. ("Mirror") Gilbert and Mark Sullivan, cheered loudly for Senator George. At 44, he was a distinguished lawyer, brilliant orator, a rather impressive figure on the Senate floor. He was no bombaster of the Tom Heflin school, no ranting humorist of the Pat Harrison species. His popularity grew; people began to say that the South was having a political renaissance, that soon the John Calhouns and the Henry Clays would again sway the Senate...
...Senators Sheppard and Heflin each delivered an oration on Mothers' Day. Each read an appropriate poem: "My Mother...
...used to be a Progressive Republican, but now is one of the Nestors of the Senate, chairman of the Judiciary Committee; and one of the new Progressives, Brookhart, is going to try to displace him. Ah, and do you see this large face and figure advancing? That is Heflin, who used to be chief demagog of the Democratic party, but his voice seems to have grown tired, and Caraway, with his low sarcastic drawl, twits him. This neat little man is Moses, one of the Republican irreconcilables-quite a wit in his way. His speeches are usually short, a sentence...
...bids made, but consideration seems to have centered on two only, the combined bid of the Muscle Shoals Fertilizer Co. and the Muscle Shoals Power Distributing Co. and that of the Air Nitrates Corp. Four members of the committee favored the first of these bids and recommended it. Senator Heflin, who lives in the same state with Muscle Shoals, favored the Air Nitrates Corp. bid. Congressman James was too displeased with the bids to make recommendations...