Word: barkley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Paducah, Ky. is the home town not only of Funnyman Irvin S. Cobb but of ("Dear") Alben Barkley. leader of the New Deal majority in the Senate. Since Governor Albert B. ("Happy") Chandler is hot after Mr. Barkley's seat,*Paducah will be Franklin Roosevelt's most Important political stop, on July 9. Next on his visiting list will come Oklahoma, where faithful Senator Elmer Thomas is up for reelection, next, his son Elliott in Fort Worth, Texas...
...battle Senator Barkley last week solemnly became a Moose (Governor Chandler is a Shriner...
...House thought $3,154,425,000 would be enough money to fight Depression II by Federal lending & spending. Last week the Senate in its wisdom, after being whipped through several night sessions by Majority Leader Barkley. who wanted this session of Congress to end some day, made an end of arguing. By 60-to-10 it passed a bill 1) rating Depression II as a $3,722,905,000 affair-$568,480,000 bigger than the House thought- 2) giving Franklin Roosevelt almost as free a hand in spending the money as he had asked...
Last February, when Speaker Bankhead and Senate Majority Leader Barkley were insisting that Congress would adjourn by May 15, Nathan W. Robertson, Senate reporter for Associated Press, asked Mr. Garner for his views...
While other Senators joined the hue & cry. Majority Leader Barkley got in touch with Harry Hopkins. That very day the campaign manager of Governor "Happy" Chandler of Kentucky (a candidate this year for Barkley's Senate seat) had published a letter to President Roosevelt in which he charged, with affidavits to match, that WPA jobs in Kentucky were only for Barkley voters. Said Mr. Barkley, specially anxious to quell the storm of poll-priming indignation...