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...bride was composed, the groom was nervous and muffed his lines. In St. John's Methodist Church in St. Louis before a gathering in which newsmen outnumbered relatives two to one, Vice President Alben Barkley married Mrs. Carleton S. Hadley. She is 38; he will be 72 this week...
Married. Vice President Alben William ("Veep") Barkley, 71, and Mrs. Carleton Sturtevant Hadley, 38; both for the second time; in St. Louis (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
Both sides had accepted the campaign as a national battleground. President Truman had proclaimed Lehman his man. Democratic big guns, ranging from Vice President Alben Barkley to Representative Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., raked the state with oratory. Labor worked as never before. New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey, still smarting under criticism of his ''me, too" campaign in 1948, stumped the state almost as widely as his candidate. He called for a "holy crusade" to elect Dulles, lent Dulles a campaign staff...
Vice President Alben W. Berkley and Fiancee Mrs. Carleton S. Hadley bore up remarkably well under the strain of a full pre-wedding week. Recovering from flu in a St. Louis, hospital, Mrs. Hadley made every minute count by approving the final details of her trousseau (a blue wedding dress and eight other new outfits). Barkley was a passenger aboard an Air Force B-17 that narrowly missed a collision with a blimp near Washington's National Airport. Meanwhile, word reached the Vice President that St. Louis streetcar motormen, passing the home of his bride-to-be, were calling...
Vice President Alben Berkley began to fancy his privacy but went on paying the price of fame. His black limousine pulled up in front of a flossy Washington jeweler's after closing time, and the door was opened for the bridegroom-elect. Afterward, newsmen told him that he had been spotted and asked for an explanation. "Oh, hell," groaned Barkley, then sheepishly admitted shopping for a ring...