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...Louisville last week, old (76) Alben Barkley stood up before a milkmen's meeting and pointed out that Winston Churchill is now 79, that Cato studied Greek at 82 and that Oliver Wendell Holmes resigned from the U.S. Supreme Court at 91. Burbled Barkley: "I feel like a kid." In Illinois, U.S. Senator Paul Douglas was roaming the countryside being folksy with farmers, militant with miners, professorial with college groups and hearty with luncheon clubs. All across the U.S., the politicians, like bees in a hive warmed by the spring sun, were beginning to stir and buzz. The reason...
...Alben W. Barkley...
Former Vice President Alben Berkley admitted to reporters that he is "toying with the idea" of adding his political reminiscences to the growing library of New Deal memoirs. Pressed for details, Barkley, a hale & hearty 74, confessed that he had never kept a diary, but he had "a good memory," and besides, "some people write down a lot of things they later wish they hadn...
...John Sherman Cooper: About as popular as a Republican can be in Kentucky, the courtly Cooper last year carried a state that Ike lost. But he will be in deep trouble if Alben Barkley decides to run (TIME, Sept...
After almost half a century in public office and 40 years in Washington. Alben...