Word: heflinism
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...Declined (6440-18) to unseat John Hollis Bankhead in favor of James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin as Alabama's Senator (see below...
Most Senators thought they had heard the final heffling of James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin, their hulking colleague for a decade, when on March 4, 1931 the 71st Congress was silenced. As the Capitol's double doors closed on his flapping broadcloth coat tails, they believed that his creamy vest, his lush black tie, his florid face and droning voice had passed forever from the scene. Had Alabama not repudiated him in 1930 for political apostasy, electing John Hollis Bankhead in his place? Those who supposed they were through with heffling were mistaken. Last week, in full oldtime regalia...
...Democrat Heflin contested the election of Senator Bankhead, claimed it had been stolen from him. For months he haunted the Capitol corridors while a Senate Committee investigated his charges. As a final courtesy he was extended the extraordinary privilege of addressing the Senate as a private citizen on why he should be seated over Mr. Bankhead. Given two hours, he took five hours, twelve minutes. His speech filled 27 pages in the Congressional Record, cost the Government $1,000 to print...
...Debated the Bankhead-Heflin contested election in Alabama...
...Voted (9-to-8) to seat Alabama's John Bankhead rather than its James Thomas ("Tom Tom") Heflin...