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...Henry Ashurst wrote in his speller, in a childish but firm hand: Henry Fountain Ashurst, U. S. Senator from Arizona. Thus he announced the great ambition of his life...
...father and mother (who had borne Henry in 1874 in a covered wagon near Winnemucca, Nev.) had trekked to Flagstaff, Ariz., where the elder Ashurst went into the cattle business. Summers, young Henry punched cows, more often tethered his horse and strode around the lonely Arizona landscape, exhorting the cacti and the boulders, making speeches to the mountains, like Demosthenes on the beach. He was practicing for his chosen career. He studied law, at the age of 21 got himself elected to the Arizona Territorial Legislature. He served later in the Territorial Senate. In 1912, Arizona was admitted to Statehood...
There are in the Senate 16 Democrats who in 1928 supported the La Follette Resolution condemning a third term as "unwise, unpatriotic and fraught with peril to our free institutions." One is Arizona's Ashurst. Another is bumbling Alben Barkley. Last week, to embarrass them, Nebraska's Edward Burke invited them to his sub-committee hearings on his proposed Constitutional amendment limiting a President to one six-year term, to explain their support of a third term for Franklin Roosevelt. They hedged. Rumbled Alben Barkley: "A wise man may change his mind, but a fool never does." Quipped...
...Commenting on Hitler safety pledges, Arizona's Senator Henry Fountain Ashurst remarked: "Absolutely worthless. Anyone who believes Hitler's promises has sweetbreads for brain's. Hitler is a lycanthropist [a werewolf...
...from outside began to reecho in Congress. Maryland's Senator Tydings cried that members who voted to go home should be kept there by their constituents. "I couldn't vote for myself if I ran away from duty at this time," declared Arizona's sesquipedalian Senator Ashurst. Sam Rayburn heard much of the same from his colleagues in the House, growled that "a great many of them, if there was a secret ballot, would vote to adjourn. ..." First sign that Congress' public sense of duty might prevail sprang from an even greater phenomenon: a fear among...