Word: barkley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senator Barkley: This is not an autobiography, I hope...
...Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 and the law of the land. This week, after three days of debate divided between assertions by various Senators .that they did not understand what they were voting for and contrary assertions that the bill had to be passed anyway, Majority Leader Barkley managed a roll call, got the bill passed...
...Successor to the late Joseph Robinson as Senate majority leader is (1 Samuel H. Reyburn, 2 Henrik Shipstead, 3 Bertrand H. Snell, 4 Robert M. La Follette Jr. 5 Alben W Barkley...
...Majority Leader Alben Barkley the filibuster was not the most serious Southern reaction to his allowing an anti-lynching bill to reach the Senate floor. Because he faces a Senatorial primary in Kentucky next August he left Washington and the filibuster to attend a testimonial banquet in his honor at Louisville's Brown Hotel. Governor A. B. ("Happy'') Chandler, who was put into office with Alben Barkley's help, declined to attend. Instead popular "Happy"' Chandler was given a luncheon the same day, at which he announced his willingness to serve Kentucky "in any other...
Speaking in academic cap & gown to students of Washington's Peirce School, U. S. Senate Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley declared the U. S. has "more representation and more taxation than the forefathers ever dreamed...