Word: robinson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nightfall the body of Joe Robinson rode back to Arkansas whence he had come, on a special train bearing 38 Senators and a large delegation from the House. The train also carried all 4,000 floral offerings, including wreaths from the Democratic National Committee and the Jefferson Islands Club, from Mrs. James Roosevelt, mother of the President, from President Manuel Quezon of the Philippines, from Japanese Ambassador Hirosi Saito...
They buried him with the honors of war. A dozen blocks from the Capitol is the establishment of one of Senator Robinson's old friends, Undertaker Martin Wellington Hysong. Two weeks ago the Senator was there for dinner. Last week his body was brought to the undertaking rooms two floors below where he had dined. He was dressed in his frock coat and encased in a copper casket stippled over with silver which was stood in the same gloomy corner where the caskets of Senator Walsh and Senator Fletcher stood not long ago. The next morning 15 Senators...
Next morning Widow Ewilda Gertrude Miller Robinson arrived and gazed her last on Joe Robinson whom she had married 40 years before when she was a backwoods belle and he a 24-year-old lawyer beginning to make good in Lonoke. Behind the casket stood a bank of palms ordered by Bernard Baruch, over it a blanket of orchids, gardenias, gladioli and delphinium, also from Mr. Baruch who had ordered $500 worth of flowers...
...noon Joe Robinson's casket stood on the floor of the Senate only a few feet from his empty desk. The President and his Cabinet occupied a group of chairs at the left of the Senate aisle. On the right sat the widow, family and friends including Mr. Baruch and Harvey Couch, the Arkansas utility tycoon. Senators, Representatives, Justice Pierce Butler representing the Supreme Court, Army, Navy & Marine officers, diplomats jammed the chamber. A soprano sang Lead, Kindly Light, the Reverend ZeBarney Phillips, chaplain of the Senate, read the funeral service. The Reverend James Shera Montgomery, chaplain...
...Sunday morning in Little Rock, Joe Robinson was carried for the last time to his home, thence at midmorning to Arkansas' Capitol to lie in state, thence to the First Methodist Church where his funeral sermon was solemnly pronounced. Thunderheads were gathering as his casket was carried from the church. At Roselawn Cemetery his body was committed to the earth in the midst of an electric storm with lightning crashing and 2,000 mourners standing drenched in the rain...