Word: barkleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government agencies from Presidential tampering, they were voted down at the rate of one a minute. When Virginia's Harry Byrd proposed killing the section applying to the Comptroller General, the Administration's majority against him stood at 4740-36. All this evidently made Floor Leader Alben Barkley so confident that instead of letting the bill come to a final test on Friday, he postponed the roll call over the week end to make his victory all the more one-sided. This almost turned out to be a serious error...
...Plan jumped jubilantly into the fight against it. First test of their strength was an amendment proposed by Massachusetts' David Walsh to leave the civil service administration under a three-man commission. It was defeated, but by such a narrow margin-50-to-38-that Floor Leader Alben Barkley promptly betrayed the fact that his alarm outweighed his satisfaction by leaving himself appallingly wide open to a rude jibe from Idaho's Borah. To Mr. Borah's suggestion that the President favored shifting the Forest Service from the Agriculture to the Interior Department, perturbed Leader Barkley indignantly...
Floor Leader Barkley could think of no better comeback than to hope that his opponent was not minimizing the odds that had been offered...
...Reorganization Plan was an amendment whereby Presidential changes, under Title 1, needed Congressional approval to be effective-thereby throwing the balance of power to Congress since a simple majority would be sufficient to thwart any executive proposal. Scurrying to round up votes against the amendment. Floor Leader Barkley found so few that it seemed advisable to have Louisiana's Ellender launch a miniature filibuster to prevent a roll call. Meanwhile, Floor Leader Barkley was so busy bargaining on the floor that Mr. Borah was moved to another and more pertinently acid comment on the proceedings. Said he: "Certain things...
...Truth Party."' When Majority Leaders Barkley and Rayburn told Franklin Roosevelt that the situation was likely to get out of their hands, the President stepped confidently in, summoned all the directors to explain their charges to him at the White House. Up to this point Washington had proceeded on the assumption that the TVA squabble was full of political dynamite. But Franklin Roosevelt in the past has seen plenty of such dynamite turn out to be a squib, and he knew the three TVA directors better than anyone else in Washington. And Franklin Roosevelt is a political showman without...