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...this session, and a long fight it was. California's Johnson introduced the bill in the early Spring. Utah's Smoot aided Arizona's Ashurst and Hayden, first indirectly, then directly, in delaying the debate. Maryland's Bruce and Tydings and Tennessee's McKellar helped the Arizonans too. But it was the orotund Ashurst and the dogged Hayden who, with desks stacked high with time-consuming documents, talked and talked and talked the bill to a standstill last week...
...through a 23-hour filibuster led by Tennessee's McKellar on the conference report on the Muscle Shoals bill; adopted the report. The bill went to the President...
Tennessee's McKellar and Tennessee's Tyson had slipped home from the U. S. Senate to be there. Governor Horton and Hill McAllister, his political antagonist spoke, not on politics. No-one thought but of old-time "Uncle Alf" Taylor, who used to spin yarns over 40 years ago, and was still going strong...
...lately wrote, Vermonters were persuaded he will be among them during at least part of his vacation. From another letter, North Carolinians were sure that the President appreciated his invitation to a mansion on Beaucatcher Mountain, near Asheville. Georgians talked of offering an island estate off their coast. Senators McKellar and Tyson of Tennessee called and offered the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Pound of Chattanooga, on historic Lookout Mountain. Governor Byrd of Virginia and small Boiling Byrd Flood, son of the late Representative Henry D. Flood of Virginia, and C. Bascom Slemp, the President's oldtime...
...stepped out on to that great stage and sang her way into the hearts of her audience. There was a special delegation of home folks (in Grace Moore's case it was from Jellico, Tennessee-a father, a mother, a sister, three brothers, U. S. Senators Tyson and McKellar, Representatives Hull and Garrett, and 100 friends). There were also photographs with flowers and Chairman Otto H. Kahn of the Metropolitan Board of Directors...