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Vice President Alben W. Berkley bussed a Virginia beauty, crowned her queen of the Culpeper bicentennial festival and cracked: "While I'm in the mood, I may crown one of my own some of these days and keep her." The quip, 71-year-old Widower Barkley hastily explained to reporters overeager for the sound of wedding bells, had nothing whatever to do with Mrs. Carleton Hadley, the comely widow whom he had just visited in St. Louis...
Harry Truman had invited to Blair House 14 high military, diplomatic and congressional figures, including Defense Secretary Louis Johnson, Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Chairman David Lilienthal of the Atomic Energy Commission and Vice President Alben Barkley. Secret Service men shooed people away from the sidewalk out front, and forbade photographers to use their cameras. When the visitors finally left, after 2½ hours with the President, they were grim-faced, and their jaws were clamped shut by order of the President. Senator Millard Tydings told reporters: "You wouldn't print the story...
...Washington, the House voted to strike off a gold medal in honor of Vice President Alben W. Berkley. The Government would keep the medal, but Barkley, along with the public, would get a chance to buy bronze duplicates...
...people and evokes a picture of the countryside with the sureness of Elizabeth Madox Roberts. There is no question of her success in picturing the profane and pious old people, the backwoodsmen with fine old names like Ballew and Hull, the proud parents who gave their children names like Alben W. Barkley Tiller, the farmers working on the WPA or in the automobile factories of Detroit...
When one motor of their chartered twin-engine Lockheed conked out 60 miles from Columbus, Ohio, Vice President Alben Berkley and a planeload of Washington brass, including Attorney General Tom Clarlc, Postmaster General Jesse Donaldson, and Air Secretary Stuart Symington, made a safe emergency landing. After an hour's delay at Columbus, they commandeered a Navy plane and took off for St. Louis to keep a Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner date. Next day the Veep flew on to Los Angeles in a regular commercial airliner...