Word: barkleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conference with utility company heads which was postponed to this week. It did not cause him to cancel a chat with Acting Budget Director Daniel Bell, which took place in his private quarters in the White House. Early this week he called in Vice President Garner, Senate Majority Leader Barkley, Speaker of the House Bankhead and House Majority Leader Rayburn to discuss Congressional developments...
...weary closing days of the last session, Senate Majority Leader Alben Barkley was filling the calendar for the session to follow when his distracted lieutenant, Utah's William H. King, hesitated too long getting to his feet with a District of Columbia airport bill. Up jumped New York's Robert Wagner with his Federal Anti-Lynching Bill which had already passed the House. So fearful of a last-minute filibuster by Southern Senators was Leader Barkley that he promised to make anti-lynching the first order of business after the Farm Bill in the next session, if Senator...
...Senate last week, 18 of the 20 members of the Senate Finance Committee went on record for modifying the undistributed profits tax. Strongest opposition to the tax came from the Committee's Chairman Pat Harrison who, having failed by one vote to beat Kentucky's Alben Barkley for the Senate Democratic Leadership last summer, no longer feels any inhibitions about speaking out on fiscal policies which may or may not have Presidential favor. Said he: "The main thing I have in mind is employment, and if private industry is given some encouragement it will help. Today...
...Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, to Jean Harder, Manhattan socialite; in Manhattan. Mr. Ryan's 1934 marriage to Austrian Countess Marie Anne Paule Ferdinandine von Wurmbrand-Stuppack was annulled. His cousin, Basil ("Pat") Ryan, was married three weeks ago while "full of North Carolina corn," to one Martha Barkley. 21, mother of a two-months-old child...
These sentiments, which would leave many a businessman cold, when enunciated by U. S. Senate Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley in Chicago last week before the annual American Finance Conference were greeted with thunderous applause. For the American Finance Conference is the trade association of independent automobile financing companies and currently it is in a tremendous stew over what it calls the ''monopolistic coercion" practiced by the four big financing companies owned or tied up with automobile companies...