Word: barkley
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...making up their minds; they could easily switch back if the country got into a serious economic recession or met grave setbacks in foreign affairs. The Democratic Party in the 1952 convention and in the campaign displayed great vitality: a hard-hitting variety of oratorical range from Truman to Barkley to Stevenson; a press which, while outnumbered by the Republican papers, is aggressive and devoted; a warmth and color that runs through the intermediate leadership; and the loyalty of most intellectuals, the famous eggheads, who are very useful allies since they write the books, are heard on the airwaves...
...Ohio, agricultural Darke County was a good sample of intense Republican enthusiasm. Darke was 413 for Eisenhower and 116 for Stevenson (1948: Dewey 289, Truman 132). In Kentucky, a solid Democratic county like Marshall-in Alben Barkley's congressional district-raised its G.O.P. vote from...
...strongly organized "Democrats for Eisenhower" in Virginia were elated, although it is doubtful whether Byrd will actively help their campaign. Earlier, Governor John Battle had come out for Stevenson and the regular Democratic ticket, and leaders of the Byrd organization are committed on both sides. Veep Alben Barkley furiously called Democratic defectors "like the woman who keeps her husband's name . . . but bestows her favors to the man across the street." As of this week, Stevenson still seemed to have slightly better than a 50-50 chance to carry Virginia...
...Louisville, Ky., Vice President Alben Berkley helped observe National Newspaper Week by helping his great-nephew Johnny Dyson, 13, deliver the Paducah Sun Democrat to a few houses. Said Barkley to one housewife: ". . . I'm taking subscriptions in advance." Told she was paid up until January, the Veep replied: "That's fine. I'll be back; I'm going to be out of a job the first of the year anyway...
After lunch, Stevenson mounted the steps of McCracken County Courthouse for an informal speech in which he sang Barkley's praises and expressed himself unsurprised that a platform had collapsed under Eisenhower at Richmond, Va. Cracked Stevenson: "I've been telling him for two months that nobody could stand on that platform." At Louisville, later the same day, the Illinois governor blasted Ike's foreign policy views in less whimsical terms...