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Correspondents at a press conference early last week thought they heard Mr. Roosevelt say that Congress could well finish its task within the fortnight, leave the details of execution to him. Majority Leaders Alben Barkley in the Senate, Sam Rayburn in the House acted as if that was the idea, got much Defense work done...
...bill passed the House, 282-to-97 (enough votes to override a Presidential veto). Last year the Senate-passed the bill (when Majority Leader Alben Barkley dozed), later reneged (when he awoke). This year it has an even-Stephen chance. President Roosevelt has indicated that he is against it. Should he come to think the Republicans can win the 1940 election, he could do them no nastier trick than to sign Mr. Walter's bill...
...with the House) a better show at the National Press Club than at the Capitol. Kentucky's Alben Barkley. whose forte is singing Wagon Wheels, sang it solo for the guests at a Congressional beefsteak dinner; also sang a duet with his onetime foe, Kentucky's junior Senator "Happy" Chandler...
...Western Democrat, many Democratic Western Senators rejected the principle, on the theory that the import of $4,411,853 worth of Argentine canned meats is injurious to the $1,144,000,000 U. S. cattle industry. In this emergency, the Administration feared to trust wholly to Kentucky's Alben Barkley, Senate leader. Afraid that "Peerless Leader'' Barkley might lose votes and alienate people, the White House called in Mississippi's "Grey Fox," Pat Harrison, begged him to get busy...
...even tougher (TIME, March 18). Rallied behind Gospeleer Hatch were Mahout Charles McNary of Oregon and his 22 Republican elephants, all of them acting like poker-faced converts, but none of whom had ever before shown any absorbing interest in pure politics. At his shoulder were Kentucky's Alben Barkley and Happy Chandler, whose desperately dirty 1938 campaign had roused public support to Hatch Bill I. Then Senate Leader Barkley had used WPA to counteract Governor Chandler's Highways Department payrollers. Now both had seen the light. Said Happy to Alben: "I'm for this bill...