The Archive · 1937

Little Rock

Senator Joseph Taylor Robinson came home from the political wars to-day io rest in death beneath the trees of Arkansas.

n from high walks of life, men who nad fought with him and against him in a life-time of legislative conflict, stood beneath the summer sun. shoulder to shoulder with the people of the Ozarks and the delta country, as the late senate majority leader was buried: on a rolling, tree-studded hillside above the rusty waters of the Arkansas.

At the graveside, sweltering under a hot blue sky, were Senator Pat Harrison, Democrat of Mississippi: Senator Alben Barkley, Democrat of Senator-Burton K. Whee-Senator Arihur H. Vandenberg Republican of Michigan and others who this week will resume the conflict with perhaps even greater intensity.

Political Fight Goes On Two problems ju which the return of the Vice-President, Garner, to the capital, definite -effect. faced the Se: delegation of 38 members on their return to Washington—the apparently final stage Of the fight over the stitute judiciary-reorganization and the selection of a new majority

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