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When Secretary of State Dean Acheson signed the NATO treaty on April 4, 1949, as Vice President Alben Barkley and President Harry Truman watched, Western Europe was on the brink of economic collapse and its hastily demobilized armies were overwhelmingly outnumbered by the Soviets, 210 divisions...
Other books by women authors such as "Mommie Dearest," stories of actress Joan Crawford by her daughter Christina Crawford, and "Moments of Being," unpublished autobiographical writings by Virginia Woolfe, seem to be popular with college-age readers, Peter Barkley, a short-order buyer at Words Worth, said last week...
...Barkley also mentioned Herman Wouk's World War II novel "War and Remembrance" as a current success...
Other famous Paducans are Alvin Barkley, who served as Truman's vice president, and Phil Roof, a catcher in the major leagues. Roof is one of nine ballplaying brothers, five of whom have played professionally...
...plea that the barriers that divide Americans be finally bridged ("Notwithstanding the past, my presence here is one additional bit of evidence that the American dream need not forever be deferred") will take its place among Democratic Convention oratorical classics: the eloquent addresses of Adlai Stevenson in 1952, Alben Barkley in 1948, Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1932, William Jennings Bryan...