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...Nearing Florida, the Houston's radio picked up a welcome message from Kentucky's Senator "Dear Alben" Barkley: "Looks like my majority will be between 60,000 & 70,000 votes...
...polls within eight days. In none except Tennessee (see p. 13) was heat generated equal to Kentucky's. The source of Kentucky's heat was a pitcher of ice water. For the closing hours of the race between Governor "Happy" Chandler and Majority Leader "Dear Alben" Barkley for the latter's Senate seat were enlivened by the "poisoning" of Candidate Chandler (TIME...
...Dear Alben" could not be more faithful, but he is not nimble. Almost his first act as Majority Leader was to let New York's Wagner introduce the time-wasting anti-lynching bill, abhorrent to Southerners. When he was invited to speak to Washington's gay Alfalfa Club (dining) he asked Pat Harrison how long he should talk. An old hand, Pat Harrison said: "Well . . . about an hour and a half." Alben Barkley suspected nothing until, after an hour, the Alfalfans applauded when he said, "And in conclusion. . . ." As befits his plodding nature his favorite song is Wagon...
Kentucky law limits her Governors to one term. When Federal Judge Charles H. Moorman died this year, a way was seen for "Happy" Chandler to go up to the U. S. Senate without fighting Alben Barkley for his seat. Who approached whom with the idea of giving Senator Logan the judgeship to make way for Happy is a matter of dispute. Friends of Senator Barkley, who has ambitions to be President, say he killed the idea, lest his path to the White House seem to have an unworthy detour in it. Franklin Roosevelt asked Happy to be a good...
...Shackleford Miller Jr.; Michael ("Mickey" j Brennan, 61, red-headed one-time saloonkeeper; and "Miz" Lennie Lee McLaughlin, 34, who looks like the Duchess of Windsor and lives in style at the Kentucky Hotel. A country belle from Breckenridge County, she got into politics via a typing job at Alben Barkley's headquarters when he ran for Governor in 1923. She runs the office of the Jefferson County Democratic executive committee. Mickey Brennan handles the people. Lawyer Miller watches the law. They were careful to get all the Barkley men they could on the Chandler-dominated election boards this...