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...daddy." For all 14 years his capital residence has been a room in the modest Washington Hotel next door to Mr. Garner's. Lindsay Warren did not consult the White House when he drafted the Reorganization bill. The New Deal's leader in the Senate, "Dear Alben" Barkley, even stepped aside in the sharp Senate battle, leaving the generalship to Jimmy Byrnes.* Thus: Reorganization, 1939, was neither written nor passed under New Deal guidance. As enacted it stands as the first major accomplishment of the Garner "moderates...
...Leader Barkley contributed a laugh, however. To make sure no Senator misunderstood, he intervened to have a question reread before a vote was taken. Then he got balled up himself, voted the wrong...
...week Labor took a beating from the Army. At the emphatic demand of Secretary of War Harry Hines Woodring (and after a talk with Franklin Roosevelt), House & Senate conferees on the Army's pending $366,250,000 rearmament authorization bill dropped an amendment tacked on by Majority Leader Barkley. The Army opposed it and Labor wanted it because it would have kept any national defense contract from being awarded any bidder who refused to bargain with his workers collectively. Although friendly Senators offered to limit its effects to firms actually convicted of violating the Wagner Act, the War Department...
...Majority Leader Barkley told the President that Senate confirmation of Wisconsin's pinko Tom Amlie-offensive to businessmen-to the ICC was doubtful, thereby giving rise to expectation that Mr. Amlie's name would be withdrawn...
...other rearmament jokers flustered the War Department last week: 1) Under an amendment sponsored by "Dear Alben" Barkley for C.I.O., a department head may not award any contracts for national defense to bidders whom he finds guilty of unfair labor practices. 2) New Hampshire's Republican Charles William Tobey got the Senate to limit profits on Army aircraft contracts to 10% (as in the Navy, where a similar limitation has been in effect since...