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...outsider could thus assail even Huey Pierce Long in his Senatorial capacity without causing the entire Senate to rise in wrath and smite the attacker down. Senator Tydings framed his reply in John Nance Garner's office, with the Vice President and Majority Leader Robinson standing by, many a Senator dropping in to offer aid and encouragement. Excerpts...
...Because Chairman Pittman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee was lukewarm, Senator Robinson stepped in, took on the unpopular task of championing the World Court for Franklin Roosevelt. Father Coughlin, Huey Long and William Randolph Hearst beat the kettledrums against the Court. Senator Robinson fought valiantly but vainly (TIME, Feb. 11). Grim and glum, he received from Franklin Roosevelt (who laughed off the misadventure) a note thanking him for his "very able and very honorable fight...
When he stood for election in 1930 he carried every county in Arkansas, piled up a majority of 130,000. Today even his friends admit that for some inexplicable reason he is slipping politically at home. Huey Long has threatened to go into Arkansas next year and fight his reelection. There is veiled talk of other candidates : politics being as sectional as they are in the U. S., the more a politician changes from a big man at home to a big man in the country at large, the weaker grows his political backing at home. Thus from Senator Robinson...
...Senator Huey Pierce Long: "I suppose a columnist substituting for Walter Winchell ought to reveal some of the gossip of the Senate. Well, here goes...
...point of order? Hilda Jean Parker had been nursing about five minutes when House Doorkeeper Joseph Sinnott tapped Evert Parker ominously on the shoulder. Fishing in the pocket of his blue jeans, Father Parker produced not one but two white paste-boards?admission cards from two distinguished Senators, Huey Long of Louisiana and Carter Glass of Virginia...