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Vice President and Mrs. Alben W. Berkley arrived in Korea for a firsthand "fact-finding" tour. Said he: "The politicians back home got to bellowing that this was a forgotten war. I told the President he shouldn't come over, but I had some free time." After a Thanksgiving dinner in a jet pilots' mess, the Veep moved up to the front lines, where he autographed a 105-mm. howitzer shell, pulled the lanyard and celebrated his 74th birthday with the wish: "I hope I got some...
Vice President Alben W. Barkley is 73 years old. In five days last week, Barkley, stumping for the Democratic ticket in a Kentucky state election, made speeches at Ashland, Pikesville, Cynthiana, Covington, Glasgow, Scottsville, Bowling Green, Elizabethtown, Henderson, Madisonville, Princeton and Hopkinsville. Home in Paducah a day before the election, the Veep made a dozen more speeches in neighboring towns. After the campaign was over, this week he was slated to speak at Cincinnati and Columbus before whipping out to the West Coast for seven speeches in seven days...
...turned in a terse resignation to the Senate Small Business Committee. It was accepted immediately. Flo flew back from a vacation at her Kentucky farm to face the preliminary inquiries of Counsel Francis Flanagan of the Senate Investigations subcommittee. She then had an hour-long interview with her boss, Alben Barkley...
...Steele also seined up the fact that Alben Barkley, in 1934, successfully led a fight against a bill prohibiting any attempts by Government officials, politicians or members of Congress to influence RFC loans. Said Barkley then: "It seems to me that [the bill] casts a suspicion on everybody in Congress who might be willing to aid a constituent or a friend...
...last week, the New York Herald Tribune's Jack Steele was confronted by his six-year-old son waving a Washington Post. "Daddy," he asked, "what's this woman doing with a gun?" The woman on the front page was Flo Bratten, secretary to Veep Alben Barkley, dressed in her outfit as an honorary Kentucky deputy sheriff, and the gun she held was pointed straight at the reader. Steele grinned; Flo Bratten had reason to draw a bead on him. He had just broken the story of how Mrs. Bratten and Charles Shaver, counsel for the Senate small...