Word: heflinism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brockton, Mass., Ku Klux Klan meeting last month where Senator James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin of Alabama, who mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope, was making his customary speech for hire against the Roman Catholic Church, somebody threw a bottle. It missed the Senator but hit and cut his police bodyguard...
Last week Senator Heflin tried, at length, to heffle the Senate into adopting a resolution condemning the nameless bottle-thrower and charging him, in effect, with attempted murder of a U. S. Senator. Religious debate again rocked the Senate chamber...
Aboard the S. S. Ancon from Panama, where a drinking spree had placed him in hospital, arrived in Manhattan last week James Thomas ("Tom Tom") Heflin Jr., 28, son of the resounding Alabama Senator who professes mortally to hate and fear alcohol and the Pope of Rome. With the young Heflin was Senator Tom Connally of Texas. Obviously befuddled by the Prohibition question, Junior Heflin gabbled convivially with ship newsgatherers until Senator Connally took him to his cabin and locked him in. Upon the pier Junior Heflin announced: "I want to see Al Smith. My father...
Suggested Alabama's hopeful Heflin: "We might at least find out how they robbed the farmers...
Pope-baiter's son, James Thomas Heflin Jr., was removed last week from a ship of the Panama Pacific Line to the Samaritan Hospital, Panama. He suffered from "acute indigestion." His cabinmate, Utah Representative Elmer O. Leatherwood, nevertheless asked for different accommodations, said young Tom-Tom had been drunk every day since he left Manhattan...