"The biggest pair of shoes that ever walked out of Mississippi" belonged, according to Senator Pat Harrison of that State, to John Sharp Williams, onetime (1911-23) U. S. Senator, who now dozes in gardenia-scented retirement on his plantation near Yazoo City, Miss. To fill the Williams shoes, Mississippi sent to Washington Hubert Durett Stephens, a man who was considered brilliant as a youth because he started practicing law at the tender age of 20, but who has yet to distinguish himself either as a shoe-filler or as a Senator.
Last week, almost in...
To continue reading:
or
Log-In
