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This week the President again found a way to postpone the ticklish problem of a special session. After a 2½-hour conference with his Cabinet Food Committee and eleven congressional leaders (notable absentees: Senators Robert Taft and Alben Barkley, Speaker Joe Martin), he announced his decision. Unused UNRRA funds could carry Europe (principally Italy and France) to Dec. 1. Meanwhile he was asking the Appropriations and Foreign Relations committees of both Houses of Congress to come to Washington. To see Europe through the winter, the President estimated that the U.S. would have to dig up $580 million...
...press conference last week would produce any important news or even pleasant laughter. In three months, Harry Truman had called in the press only six times (F.D.R. averaged two conferences a week). On most of those occasions he had been closemouthed, cautious and clipped. Besides, Senate Minority Leader Alben Barkley had already popped the major White House news item of the week, when he announced that the President would again veto the income tax cut bill if it was anything like the first...
...just to postpone it. They were out to wage a delaying action in the hope that President Truman's radio appeal to the U.S. public (see above) would stir up another torrent of telegrams to the Senate and possibly win a few uncertain members to their side. Alben Barkley, Democratic leader, tried to dissuade them. "Sometimes pressures do more harm than good," he said. But the little band of desperate men would not listen...
...battle reached its climax in the Senate last week, Kentucky's Alben William Barkley stood up to give his views. Said he: "If every organization in the United States . . . endorsed the bill I would still be against it ... it is vicious legislation." The talk was of railroads, said Barkley, but the bill applied also to water carriers, buses, trucks, pipelines and freight forwarders. It would "impose a transportation monopoly." Why not exempt U.S. Steel, Alcoa, Standard Oil and International Harvester...
...When Majority Leader Joe Robinson died, Roosevelt assured Farley that there would be no White House intervention in the fight between Mississippi's Pat Harrison and Kentucky's "Dear Alben" Barkley for Robinson's job. On the way to Arkansas for the funeral, Farley duly told both men what Roosevelt had said...