Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charles West. It would not be just to say that any of them did not have sorrow in his heart, but all had politics, biggest politics. Hardly had the train pulled out of Washington when the politicians started and it continued, save for a few solemn moments in Little Rock, until the train pulled again into Washington's Union Station three days later. Every compartment where two or three politicians were gathered together was a caucus room. In every corridor statesmen buttonholed one another, making hay while the wheels clicked. Messrs. Keenan, Farley and West, the New Deal...
Arrival in Little Rock brought a new element into the picture. Mr. Farley had wired ahead to Arkansas' Governor Carl E. Bailey and rushed off to a breakfast appointment to urge him to appoint at once a pro-Administration Senator in Joe Robinson's place. This was a delicate problem because Governor Bailey has his eye on the seat and must soon call a special election to fill it. Already it had been suggested that he appoint Widow Ewilda Robinson, which would make Arkansas the first State to have an all-female representation in the Senate, since Arkansas...
Meantime the Congressional delegation had filed by Joe Robinson's bier in the State Capitol, lunched at the Little Rock Country Club where some of them took a dip nude in the pool (the few ladies in the building having been requested not to look out of the rear windows) before attending the burial. That evening the impromptu political caucus returned to its train and started back to Washington where this week a majority leader was to be chosen. One important new delegate was present, Vice President John Nance Garner who had closed his month's vacation...
...main performance is not the whole show at Central City. There are saloons and gambling halls with oldtime atmosphere and Sheila Barrett doing impersonations in a nightclub. On the schedule this year are trips through the gold mines, a hose-cart race by the volunteer fire department, a rock-drilling contest for Colorado miners...
That night in Springfield, Mass., a linotype r of that rock-ribbed patriarch among U. S. newspapers, the Republican (founded 1824), set up an editorial which read: "Such an emotional spectacle as that of Senator McCarran of Nevada speaking after a prolonged illness, in passionate opposition to the Supreme Court Bill, is by no means unprecedented in the annals of Congressional debate. Other Senators have also taken the floor, disregarding their physicians' orders, with the knowledge common in the Senate galleries that the effort might cost their lives...