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...Senate the name calling was even hotter. As usual the good intentions of earnest Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley paved the way. Barkley (another of the absentees) said the pension law was "untimely and unfortunate"; he hoped a committee would quickly report a repealer; if not, he would take matters into his own hands...
...symbol of U.S. confidence was Senator Alben Barkley. Said he, with majestic self-control: "We have steeled ourselves to expect some temporary reverses. . . ." The image of the strange, W. C. Fields-like dignity which gripped much of the U.S. was Senator Tom Connally. Said he, transcending the headlines of the week: "Experts for years have regarded the Philippines as a military liability...
...real Churchill eloquence came later, at a joint session of Congress which Senate Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley, who arranged it, will always consider one of his proudest accomplishments...
...Chapman Andrews, famed Gobi Desert explorer, quit as director of the American Museum of Natural History, explaining that since the museum now needs new financing more than dinosaur eggs, "the problems confronting the institution . . . are not those for which I am particularly fitted. . . ." Senator Alben William Berkley made a speech in Memphis, fainted afterward of "fatigue and excitement." W. C. Fields went on the wagon again, predicted no good would come...
...conference's close, bumbling Alben Barkley told newsmen that the Administration would go after Congressional approval of a resolution for extending the service term, added: "When the need for legislation becomes apparent I believe Congress will in no way shirk its duty...