Word: heflinism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator J. Thomas Heflin of Alabama interrupted a debate on the cruiser bill, last week, with the announcement: "The Senate will be profoundly shocked and grieved to learn of the death of ... Oscar Underwood...
Thus, irony in its most logical form. Alabama gave both Heflin and Underwood to the Senate. In cast of mind and in frame of opinion, the two men were a million miles apart...
...Senator Heflin owns any real property in the state of Alabama, he derived title straight from the Pope. At least this seems to be the holding of the Supreme Court in the old case of Mayor oj Mobile vs. Eslava (Alabama, 1839) reported in 9 Porter 577. The following excerpts are taken from the opinion in that case...
...Ella A. Boole, National President of the W. C. T. U.; for Secretary of Agriculture, the Hon. Dr. J. Roach Straton; for Secretary of Commerce, the Hon. Dr. Ernest H. Cherrington, General Secretary of the World League against Alcoholism; for Secretary of War, the Hon. J. Thomas Heflin...
...summer Bible camp. Last week, the hotel burned to the ground. Dr. Straton and his wife, who were spending a few days at their summer home at the other end of Greenwood Lake, rushed to the hotel in time to hear the final crackles of the fire. Like Senator Heflin of Alabama, Dr. Straton smelled a plot by his enemies...