Word: joes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Majority Leader Joe Robinson had taken it easy that day. He felt a little better. A week before when he opened the great debate on enlarging the Supreme Court he had had a touch of the heart trouble which sometimes bothered him. "No more questions today," he cried. "Goodby!" and stalked from the floor looking pale. Few of his colleagues had known what to make of it. Only yesterday he had had another touch. Sitting in his front row seat on the aisle, he had swung around to listen to Senator Joe O'Mahoney of Wyoming, speaking against...
...Joe Robinson grew red and angry. A few moments later his heart began to flutter and pain ran through his chest. He went out on the terrace to sit in a rocker until he felt better. He decided to take a day of rest. He held a conference with Senator Alben Barkley of Kentucky and other lieutenants who were leading his Court fight, then returned home although he could not well be spared from the fight...
...Joe Robinson himself had thought the original bill went too far, but he did not see faults in the new proposal. He was a good political soldier. Even if the general's strategy was not quite the best, once the action was started, there was no use finding fault with it. His job was to lick the enemy and he intended...
...Senator's death, the Senate usually appoints a day when his friends may eulogize him. But when the Senate met at noon and his colleague, Mrs. Caraway, presented a resolution for a committee to supervise his funeral, 15 Senators rose one after another to pay spontaneous tribute to Joe Robinson. At the White House President Roosevelt, still in bed when the news was brought to him, rose on his elbow and dictated: "In the face of a dispensation so swift in its coming and so tragic in the loss it brings to the Nation, we bow in sorrow...
This mourning was real for Joe Robinson. Although he was not a good fellow in the backslapping line, although he had no facile charm or unusual mental gifts, although he was a downright man and snorted at his opponents, his fighting courage was deeply respected, his grim rectitude unquestioned. He was above demagoguery. Tom Heflin in his time and Huey Long in his, both inspired Joe Robinson's contempt and he voiced it so frankly that he made them his particular enemies. He had two virtues prized above all others by professional politicians: his word was good...