Word: barkleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kentucky, where Negroes used to be traded by Republican bosses but stayed out of the Democratic primary, Senator ''Dear Alben" Barkley and Governor "Happy" Chandler bid for the Negro vote this year. Dear Alben more successfully. Happy called old Negroes "Uncle" but Dear Alben had a stranglehold on the WPA rolls...
Month ago, after sending agents into Kentucky to explore alleged WPA activities in behalf of Senator "Dear Alben" Barkley's renomination, the Senate Campaign Investigating Committee handed a bill of particulars to WPAdministrator Harry Hopkins and asked him: What about it? Last week, having had no reply from Mr. Hopkins, Chairman Sheppard of the committee prodded Mr. Hopkins with another letter. This time he used strong phrases-"flagrantly violated," "criminal statutes." The committee declared that its evidence, supported by more than 100 affidavits, showed that...
Kentucky law forbids vote-counting on Sunday but as early as midnight Saturday it was apparent that "Dear Alben" Barkley was preserved to his President. Despite C. I. O.'s endorsement, he lost a lot of miners' votes in eastern and southern counties but his home counties of western Kentucky backed him solidly and the northern counties, where Flood Relief and WPA benefits had been lavished most heavily, deserted Governor Chandler. On Monday came Louisville's tabulations, and the Barkley margin climbed above...
Then "Happy" Chandler telegraphed Senator Barkley: "President Roosevelt said he desired your return and a majority of Kentucky Democrats agreed to return...
...Houston last weekend toward his "humiture"-ridden, politically fermenting country, he could have added up his political score, based on the week's primary elections in six States, about as follows: Kentucky-an all-important, extremely satisfying New Deal touchdown in the renomination of Majority Leader "Dear Alben" Barkley for the Senate...