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Starters: 1) Senator Alben William ("Dear Alben") Barkley, 61; 2) Governor Albert Benjamin ("Happy") Chandler...
Odds (quoted by Gallup's American Institute of Public Opinion): "Dear Alben...
Wheelhorse. Alben Barkley is a dependable, likable, old-dog sort of man whom no one, ten years ago, would have picked as a central character in the national scene. Today, Franklin Roosevelt wants young blood in the Judiciary but not, in this case, in the Senate. More than anything he wants "yes" men in the Senate, not "yes but -" men. In the Majority Leader, a "yes" man is essential. Where would any Administration's steamroller go if the engineer turned and argued about his orders? For this reason Franklin Roosevelt wrote as he did last summer to "Dear Alben...
...Alben Barkley was a tobacco farmer's son, a field worker until he was old enough to go to Marvin College at Clinton. He later put himself through Emory College (Georgia) and the University of Virginia Law School. He got his first job in the law office of Paducah's Judge W. S. Bishop whom Paducah's Irvin Cobb immortalized as "Judge Priest." Slow of mind and body, but powerful and persistent, in his career from there up to Majority Leader he had only two lucky breaks: he voted to seat Franklin Roosevelt as a delegate...
...Harry Hopkins is in politics as a lifetime social worker, who wants the Roosevelt Administration to succeed so that his plan for permanent work relief may be established. Last week he was able to deny righteously that some paper bags marked "Donated by a friend of Senator Alben W. Barkley" and given away near a WPA depot in Kentucky, were a campaign come-on fostered by WPA. Also he could deny any great consequences issuing from his most publicized political acts so far this year: plumping for Otha D. Wearin's nomination for the Senate in Iowa, and whitewashing...