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Vice President Alben Barkley was still thinking about running, but insisted he hadn't made up his mind. Said he: "I'm not like the justice of the peace in Kentucky, who announced that he was taking the case under advisement and would render a decision in one week for the plaintiff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Nerves & Psychosis | 4/14/1952 | See Source »

Vice President Alben Barkley, who will be 75 in November, was thinking about announcing that he is a candidate. House Speaker Sam Rayburn's name was mentioned (he said he isn't a candidate). Farther afield, other names popped up: James A. Farley, Averell Harriman, Connecticut's Brien McMahon. Michigan's Governor Mennen ("Soapy") Williams said wistfully: "Some of my friends think that some day -I'm going to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Who? | 4/7/1952 | See Source »

...Senator Earle C. Clements ofKentucky also announced for a man from his own state: Alben Barkley. CJ Oveta Gulp Hobby, former chief of the WACs, now publisher of the Houston Post, announced that she likes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: Who's for Whom? | 4/7/1952 | See Source »

...Circus Saints and Sinners monthly luncheon gag-fest in Manhattan, Vice President Alben Berkley cheerfully put on a cap & gown and gracefully accepted a few new "honorary" degrees, including a P.H.D. (for Poor Honest Democrat), a B.S. (for Bourbon & Soda), a D.D.T. (for Doing the Darndest for Truman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 31, 1952 | 3/31/1952 | See Source »

...were Tennessee's Percy Priest and Missouri's O. K. Armstrong, who ushered at meetings, New Hampshire's Senator Tobey ("the warmest-hearted friend I had"), and Senator Hoey and the rest of the representatives from Billy's home state of North Carolina. Vice President Alben Barkley told Billy admiringly: "You're certainly rockin' the old Capitol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Rockin' the Capitol | 3/3/1952 | See Source »

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