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...repeatedly called for a break in diplomatic relations with Russia. It is not the Knowland practice to argue with Administration officials and then, if he must, publicly disagree. He takes his stand against the Administration without any apparent feeling for party cohesion. In 1944, when long-suffering Alben Barkley rose in the Senate to castigate Franklin Roosevelt's veto of a tax bill, he resigned as majority leader before he sat down. Knowland is unlikely to follow or even understand this example. He gets very little cooperation out of his fellow Republican Senators, partly because he displays no obligation...
Twelve new faces and two reappearing ones will adorn the Senate of the 84th Congress. His Veepship Alben William Barkley, 76, won back the Kentucky seat he had held for 21 years (1927-48), and Joseph Christopher O'Mahoney, 70, was elected to represent Wyoming, as he had for 18 years until the 1952 Eisenhower landslide forced him to spend two years as a Washington lawyer (one client: Owen Lattimore...
Republicans lost Senate seats in both Nevada and Kentucky. In the former, Democrat Alan Bible, a protege of the late Senator Pat McCarran, defeated the Republican Senator Ernest Brown. And in Kentucky former Vice-President Alben Barkley unseated liberal Republican John Sherman Cooper...
Democratic ex-Vice-President Alben Barkley had won a strong victory over Republican incumbent Senator Cooper...
Montana Congressman Wesley D'Ewart, now campaigning for the U.S. Senate, last week observed that no Republican senatorial candidate was more than 65*(his own age). Perhaps D'Ewart was struck with the number of superannuated Democratic candidates for the Senate: Kentucky's Alben Barkley (76), Rhode Island's Theodore Green (87), Iowa's Guy Gillette (75)) Wyoming's Joseph O'Mahoney (69). West Virginia's Matthew Neely (79), Virginia's A. Willis Robertson (67), Nebraska's Keith Neville (70), South Carolina's Edgar Brown (66), Kansas' George...