Word: heflinism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said he was through with politics-but not quite. He wanted to name his successor in the Senate. He picked a Wet named James A. Collet. He compared Candidate Collet's opponent, a Dry named Charles Martin Hay, to Alabama's buffoon Senator James Thomas ("Tom Tom") Heflin. But Missouri voters, last week, gave Senator Reed a farewell rebuke and gave the Democratic nomination to Mr. Hay, who is neither handsome, eloquent nor blatant. In school, Mr. Hay was bright. In St. Louis, he is a lawyer. In politics, he preaches Prohibition and yet says he will support...
...strange interlude of a fat Senator in a summer hotel was headlined last fortnight as follows: HEFLIN SCENTS PLOT AS BED CRASHES. Last week the Senator and the hotel management, in Asbury Park, N. J., explained. The Senator's story was that two men came to his bedroom door late one evening and said they had come to mend his bed. There were two beds in the room. The Senator asked which they would mend. How did they know in which bed he would sleep? To these astute questions the men could not reply. They could find nothing wrong...
...surprised at a certain small but ever so noticeable "faux pas" in your issue of July 16, where, on page 9, col. i, under the heading "Bandwagon" (O how it pains me to set this down!) you committed the horrible blunder of referring to Senator James Thomas (Tom Tom) Heflin -without (terribly so) the usual and customary appositional phrase which begins, "who mortally hates...
...average citizen of normal intelligence deplores such spectacles as Heflin, Volstead, the K. K. K., the drab monotony of Mr. Coolidge, and like tendencies; he maintains a respectful and open-minded attitude toward Al Smith and wife, "humble example(s) of transmogrification," and kindred influences; therefore he resents being so subtly harangued by a paper that makes an issue of nonpartisanship. TIME grinds axes and shouts "News!" from cover to cover...
Senator James Thomas ("Tom Tom") Heflin of Alabama, who suggested that the South nominate a new set of Democratic electors and vote for them...