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...Senator Ed H. Moore, who used to be a Democrat until he sickened of the New Deal. Cried he: "I hate and detest the New Deal with all my soul. It is a destructive vice in America. I want it eradicated completely." Replied big-gun Democrat, Kentucky's Alben Barkley: "I just asked them what part of the New Deal they would vote against . . . social security, the wage-hour act, bank insurance, soil conservation and all the rest...
...drugs. When Hopkins finally pulled through, no one was certain which drug-if any-had turned the trick. (That was WPA's toughest year, when Scripps-Howard Reporter Tom Stokes won a Pulitzer prize for exposing the use of the relief vote in re-electing Kentucky's Alben Barkley...
Democrats, who have lost all but one of the past eight Congressional by-elections, were taking care not to lose the next one. They were rushing one of their top-drawer attractions, Senate Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley, off to the Oklahoma hills to help swing next week's Second Congressional District election their way. Normally this would be considered sending...
...World War I veteran and past American Legion state commander. Democrat Stigler and Republican Clark are the rival attorneys of the town of Stigler (pop. 1,572), named for the Democrat's family. Dopesters are backing Stigler to win, but the Democrats who sent the hurry call for Alben Barkley were in no mood to trust to form...
Douglas MacArthur II, 34, nephew of the General, son-in-law of Kentucky's Alben Barkley, is a gaunt young diplomat who used to be secretary of the U.S. Embassy at Vichy under Admiral William D. Leahy, now President Roosevelt's personal military adviser. While Diplomat Henry-Haye was escorted to the lilies and languors of Hershey, Diplomat MacArthur was packed off to a dreary Vichy prison camp at Lourdes, was later turned over to the Nazis...