Word: heflinism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Vengeance for bolting the Democratic Party in the last presidential election fell on Senator James Thomas Heflin of Alabama last week when the State Democratic Executive Committee read him out of the party (27-21). The 120,000 rank-and-file Alabama Democrats who voted for Hoover were not drummed out of camp, only warned that a vote in the primaries would be a promise of party regularity. Leader Heflin paid the penalty to which leadership is liable...
...Norris flayed Publisher Edward Beale McLean of the Washington Post. Senator Glass flayed Chairman Charles Edwin Mitchell of Manhattan's National City Bank. Senator Harrison flayed the Republican President. Senate attendance petered out until at the final meeting only eleven members were present. Senator James Thomas ("Tom Tom") Heflin rose primed to make a speech. To silence him Ohio's Senator Fess had the roll called. Newsmen in the gallery guffawed at the spectacle. Senator Heflin, sensitive to laughter, blurted a demand that the galleries be cleared. As a clerk slowly droned names that did not respond, Vice...
...Adopted a resolution by Alabama's Heflin to investigate speculation in the New York, Chicago, New Orleans cotton Exchanges...
...chance of a session if not of a Senatorial term for such friends-of-the-farmer as Montana's Wheeler, North Dakota's Frazier, South Dakota's Norbeck, Iowa's Brookhart, South Carolina's Smith, Caraway of Arkansas, Heflin of Alabama. Senator McNary of Oregon, chairman of the Committee on Agriculture, sat back and let his colleagues have their fun. Many a witness might have been dismayed. But Alexander H. Legge was not dismayed...
Hugo LaFayette Black, otherwise known as the Junior Senator from Alabama- Junior, that is, to the Hon. James Thomas ("Tom Tom") Heflin-appeared in Washington traffic court last week because his automobile had been in collision. He pointed to the other collisionist, one Oliver H. Austin, and said, "That is the man." Result: $200 fine for Autoist Austin for hit-&-running. Police in Phoenix City, Ala. observed an automobile behaving peculiarly at midnight, suspected autointoxication, arrested the occupants, found allegedly three bottles of home brew. One B. M. Haines was charged with driving while intoxicated the automobile of James Thomas...