Word: mayfield
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...case of the outstanding "lame duck" who will take his seat next week, Representative Finis J. Garrett of Tennessee, Democratic floor-leader. Representative Garrett tried, unsuccessfully, to slip into the seat of Tennessee's Senator McKellar. Representative Tom Connolly, who will slip into the seat of Senator Mayfield after this session, might be called a three-legged duck...
...attention on alternate Mondays. Mr. Blanton demands roll and quorum calls, makes booming points of order, inveighs lengthily on small grievances. He serves the purpose of keeping something from being "put over" (his pet phrase) on the House. He is now a lame gadfly, however, having run third to Mayfield and Connolly for the Senate. His departure after March will not be regretted by the general membership...
Texas held its run-off primary for Democratic nomination to the Senate. U. S. Representative Tom Connally ran away from U. S. Senator Earle B. Mayfield by more than 50,000 votes. Interpretation: The Ku Klux Klan which backed the Hon. Mayfield is becoming as impotent in Texas as it is elsewhere...
...white Texas primary held last week returned Governor Dan Moody for re-election by some 100,000 votes. T. B. Love, loudspoken anti-Smithist, candidate for Lieutenant-Governor, ran some 80,000 votes behind Barry Miller, pro-Smith. Senator Earle B. Mayfield was close-pressed in defending his seat from ambitious Representative Tom Connally...
...horned toad (Phrynosoma cornutum). Old Rip, the toad's name was, because it was supposed to have been buried in the cornerstone of the Eastland, Tex., court house, for 31 years. That it was still alive, President Coolidge could plainly see. As he discussed its merits with Senator Mayfield and some other Texans, he pointed at it, not with his finger, but with the bars of his horn-rimmed spectacles. This gesture, observers realized, was not a conscious precaution against a bite or horned warts. Pointing with the bars of his spectacles, indefinitely, with both bars at once...