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...because it tacitly carried with it a good chance for the nomination for the full term next year. For such a prime political plum, Tom Heflin, weary of the smaller jobs he had been given since his defeat in 1930, entered the race this autumn against Chairman J. Lister Hill of the House Military Affairs Committee...
...Heflin's chief liability was the loud and bigoted clownishness he displayed in both houses of Congress for 27 years. Lister Hill, reported candidate of Governor Bibb Graves's machine, had as his chief liability a zealous New Deal enthusiasm that led him last session to break with his southern colleagues over the wages-&-hours legislation. To voters Tom Heflin roared, "Send me to the Senate and I'll see that they don't pass the anti-lynching bill." But the idea of sending Tom Heflin back to the Senate for any reason whatever, according...
...Representative for 14 years, 44-year-old Lister Hill is the son of Dr. Luther Leonidas Hill, said to be one of the first surgeons to operate successfully on the human heart and a pupil of England's Lord Lister for whom his eldest son was named. When Governor Graves this week appointed him to replace his wife, Senatress Dixie, the New Deal's leaders in Congress scored one victory, one defeat: When Lister Hill joins the New Deal bloc in the Senate chamber, the chairmanship of his Military Affairs Committee-the legislative guardians of TVA-will fall...
...Representative Lister Hill, chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee, Secretary of War Woodring last week dispatched a chit. He recommended repeal of a law passed in 1901 which forbids the sale of beer, wine or intoxicating beverages on Army premises. This, Mr. Woodring explained, was not a Wet-Dry issue, but a question of discrimination against the Army. Sailors and marines can now buy beer at their canteens ashore. Said he: "The repeal of this law restores the Army to parity with the Navy...
...states that these antiseptics are of no value and yet one of the greatest surgeons that ever lived laid the cornerstone of modern medicine with an antiseptic solution having the same germicidal strength as the antiseptics so rashly criticized. Lord Lister was able to prevent infections with a solution of carbolic acid. . . . This doesn't make sense, and yet this is the sort of statement which is being copied in critical books and other publica-tions throughout the country. Can it be that at this late day it is found that antiseptic surgery is a failure, that Lister...