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...Taft had won his fight to keep an omnibus bill. Despite wolf cries of "veto" from Wayne Morse and Minority Leader Alben Barkley, he also put over the Ball amendment. But before the Senate approved it (60 to 28), it deleted the word "interfere," making the provision less restrictive than similar rules for employers...
...University had turned out Woodrow Wilson, Edgar Allan Poe, and such living lights as Railroader Robert Young, Senator Alben W. Barkley, Bishop Henry St. George Tucker, Erskine Caldwell, Ed Stettinius (now the University's rector). But in 1940-41, only 122 of the state's 6,856 white high-school graduates went to the University. Complained the Richmond Times-Dispatch's Editor Virginius Dabney, '20, last week: too many University students were "young wastrels [with] large bankrolls and few serious intentions of studying." What's more, he added darkly, most of the wastrels were...
...intimate affair; just the Senate president pro tem, Arthur Vandenberg, Senate Majority Leader Wallace White, Speaker Joe Martin, House Majority Leader Charles Halleck and the two Democratic minority leaders, Alben Barkley and Sam Rayburn.* After 50 minutes' non-controversial conversation about war surpluses, the Maritime Commission and possible future meetings, the guests walked out to disappoint a mob of newsmen. The talk, said Senator Vandenberg, was strictly confined to matters "unpartisan"-a word he is trying to substitute for "bipartisan" in the capital vocabulary...
Late in the afternoon there began an unusual scurrying around on the floor. Senators began to gather in huddles. Minority Leader Alben Barkley lumbered over to the Democratic cloakroom door and talked at length with the man who stood there, just inside, nervously flicking at his lips with a handkerchief-Bilbo...
...hard digger, a writer whose prose has no wings, a liberal whose roots are not Marxian but native. Stokes is also a man with a merciless conscience: by sympathy a New Dealer from the start, he won his Pulitzer Prize by exposing a WPA vote-getting machine in Senator Alben Barkley's Kentucky...