Word: robinson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sorrow & Politics. For a week Joe Robinson had prevented the Senate from adjourning, had closed each meeting with a recess so as not to break the "legislative day," the fiction under which Senators were denied the privilege of speaking more than twice. Mrs. Caraway after announcing the death of her colleague, said, "I move the Senate do now adjourn" and a solemn chorus of "ayes" approved her motion. Thus ended Senator Robinson's drive for the Court Bill's enactment...
...bill had not been dead the night before, most Senators were sure it was now. Bumbling old Senator Copeland, who loves to parade his medical knowledge, declared in his eulogy of Senator Robinson: "Within a few days, Tuesday a week ago, indeed, I became concerned over what I saw through my medical eyes. Going to his side in the midst of the debate I urged him not to permit his zeal to invite his own destruction. . . . My fellow Senators, I am sorry sometimes that I ever studied medicine. Nearly 50 years have elapsed since I received that coveted diploma...
...more important, the heart had largely gone out of the supporters of the Court Bill with the death of their leader. Practical considerations moved other Democrats to feel that the death of Senator Robinson might be a political good fortune for the President, not only giving him the opportunity to appoint anyone he wished to the Supreme Court instead of Senator Robinson who had a virtual claim on the one existing vacancy, but also because dropping the Court fight might prevent a permanent split in the party. The speech of Hatton Sumners, which the House had so vigorously applauded...
Message to Alben. On the morning Joe Robinson was found dead Governor Clifford Townsend of Indiana paid a pre-arranged call at the White House. His remarks to the press in leaving were almost ignored in the excitement of bigger news, but they were not overlooked at the Capitol. Of Indiana's two Democratic Senators, one, Frederick Van Nuys has been a vigorous opponent of the President's Court Plan, the other, Sherman Minton, as vigorous a supporter. Governor Townsend told the press that he didn't "think the organization could nominate Van Nuys again...
...parts of the U. S. to bury his followers, but politicians are particular about funerals. Moreover, President Roosevelt had traveled far to bury Speakers Rainey and Byrns, Secretary of War Dern and his own personal Secretary Louis McHenry Howe. His decision a few hours after loyal Joe Robinson's death not to go to the funeral at Little Rock was not liked by a good many Congressmen. They said nothing publicly, but when he stepped out before the funeral with his "message to Alben," not only taking up politics immediately but accusing others of not observing a decent mourning...