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...Senator Barkley trumpeted: "I do not propose to be cowed . . . intimidated. . . . Our constituents ought to send some honest men here if we cannot be trusted to buy only the gasoline we need in the performance of our duties...
...rose Majority Leader Barkley in the midst of the 40-hour-week hullabaloo in Congress. He told his colleagues their hysteria was needless. The critical mail pouring into Washington had been inspired by old enemies of the New Deal. The motive: to destroy New Deal labor laws. The "grass roots" uprising in the South was an organized campaign. Congressmen bellowing about the 40-hour week had better go home, talk to the voters...
...Senate the name calling was even hotter. As usual the good intentions of earnest Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley paved the way. Barkley (another of the absentees) said the pension law was "untimely and unfortunate"; he hoped a committee would quickly report a repealer; if not, he would take matters into his own hands...
...symbol of U.S. confidence was Senator Alben Barkley. Said he, with majestic self-control: "We have steeled ourselves to expect some temporary reverses. . . ." The image of the strange, W. C. Fields-like dignity which gripped much of the U.S. was Senator Tom Connally. Said he, transcending the headlines of the week: "Experts for years have regarded the Philippines as a military liability...
...real Churchill eloquence came later, at a joint session of Congress which Senate Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley, who arranged it, will always consider one of his proudest accomplishments...