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Would the President veto it if it passed Congress this week in the agreed form? "I have every hope he will sign it," said Barkley, then added, "that is based on my desire, I guess...
...reporter, puzzling over the sheaf of complicated provisions in the bill, asked the Senate majority leader if he thought the conference had written an improved measure. "I don't know if it is a better bill or not," Barkley answered wearily...
Still the rumpled figures in Alben Barkley's office wrangled over what should be done. A House bloc stood stubbornly in favor of restoring controls on meat, dairy products, grains and feed. A Senate group, paced by Ohio's determined Bob Taft, insisted on easing controls over the price of manufactured products...
...Congress. On the evening of the fifth day, after a final session lasting nine hours and 40 minutes, a dog-tired Alben Barkley called in the press to announce a complex compromise agreeable to eleven of the 14 conferees. A three-man Decontrol Board, appointed by the President with Senate approval, would exercise top authority over prices. OPA, although extended until June 30, 1947, would be outranked by the Board. Major proposals...
...Senators trooped in to explain how their names had popped up in the investigation of the Garsson munitions combine. In a matter of minutes Mead Committeemen examined and exonerated House Majority Leader John McCormack, Rules Committee Chairman Adolph Sabath, Indiana's Senator Homer Capehart, Senate Majority Leader Alben Barkley...