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...course many of the delegates favored a candidate who would have more chance with both the South and New York-California. On the convention's first day, the two names most often heard as meeting this description were those of Illinois' Governor Adlai Stevenson and Vice President Alben Barkley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Robin Hood & Arithmetic | 7/28/1952 | See Source »

...Sugar Puddin'!" sang a husky feminine voice from the bedroom. A moment later Jane Barkley, a full-blown figure of a woman in scarlet housecoat, her hair in disarray, burst on to the side porch. "Look," she said, "I've got Mamie Eisenhower's bangs." Alben Barkley rose from his chair, tilted his wife's tousled head in his big hands, and smiled. "Well," he said, "you're prettier than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Affairs: The Tie That Binds | 7/28/1952 | See Source »

Last week aged Vice President Alben Barkley stepped forward and announced that he would like to try. The Veep has always managed to be loyal to the Fair Deal (including FEPC), and at the same time so loyal to his friends both in the North & South that he is regarded by one & all as "Mr. Democrat." Asked on what ballot he expects his nomination, Barkley cracked: "Almost any ballot would be satisfactory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Confused or Fluid | 7/21/1952 | See Source »

...Paid a surprise call on the Senate, got a rising ovation from both Democratic and Republican members, heard Vice President Alben Barkley eulogize him as a "great President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Limbering Up | 7/14/1952 | See Source »

Vice President Alben Berkley is still considered a live possibility in Washington. No one has as many friends as Barkley among party leaders. His greatest drawback...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Where They Stand | 7/7/1952 | See Source »

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