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...other rearmament jokers flustered the War Department last week: 1) Under an amendment sponsored by "Dear Alben" Barkley for C.I.O., a department head may not award any contracts for national defense to bidders whom he finds guilty of unfair labor practices. 2) New Hampshire's Republican Charles William Tobey got the Senate to limit profits on Army aircraft contracts to 10% (as in the Navy, where a similar limitation has been in effect since...
...once in sonorous harmony, the majority leader and presiding pundit of the U. S. Senate, Alben Barkley and John Nance Garner, last week continued to shush debate on U. S. foreign policy. When they began doing it two weeks ago G. O. P. Leader McNary winked, congratulated "Dear Alben" upon his adroitly prolonged adjournments, tipped off the fact that Republicans were no more anxious than Garner Democrats to step out against International Defense...
Senate Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley, D., Ky., said tonight that he expects to bring the measure to a vote within two or three days, depending upon the length of isolationist "oratory," but other estimates were that the debate might last the entire week if not longer...
...these "nays" Alben Barkley reddened with surprise and anger. When he heard the final count, 47-10-46 against him, he looked incredulous, astonished, hurt. All he could say to reporters was: "As sure as the sun will come up, the President will have to ask for more money. He will have to do it early in March so that it will be available by April...
...Barkley and the Administration in this first big Senate showdown of the year, was Pat Harrison. The result showed how much wiser Franklin Roosevelt might have been had he let that shrewd old reliable from Mississippi win the Majority Leadership after Joe Robinson died, instead of intervening for "Dear Alben." Leader Barkley, however, was up against not only Garner, Adams, Byrnes, Harrison & Co., he was also up against a Trend. Of 35 Senators elected or re-elected last November, 21 voted for Economy...