Word: barkleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bill to create seven regional TVAs was clearly formulated. Executive reorganization looked like the first item on the calendar but on it also was something definitely not included on the President's list. This was the Wagner-Van Nuys Anti-Lynching Bill which Senate Democratic Leader Alben Barkley had agreed to consider early in the current session to avoid a possible filibuster in the closing days of the last one. With antilynching, and the possibility of a major Congressional uproar on the subject of taxation added to the President's highly controversial program, the only thing the special...
Reorganization and protective committees. "I am confident that the Lea bill and the Barkley bill and the Chandler bill will be passed during the next session of Congress." (All three bogged down this year...
...Young Barkley was a forerunner of the youths who work their way through college taking magazine subscriptions. He sold kitchenware form house to house. The best senior honor at Marvin was the Declamation Prize. Senior Barkley won that. He remembers that for a long time afterward no function was considered complete unless he delivered his recitation...
...Senator Barkley bit through a pipestem while waiting for the results of the Senate's poll on a new leader. He slid through, score 38-37. From his eminence as President Roosevelt's "good friend Alben," the new Leader can look back on a career very American: birth in a log cabin, campaigning on a mule for an early prosecuting attorneyship, learning law in a picturesque law office, finally soliciting votes by way of horse and buggy to get to Washington in 1912. There he has remained, leaving the House for the Senate...
Already 60, husky, quick with a joke, Leader Barkley's position will be a difficult one when Congress reconvenes. The path revolt is under way, and the opposition won't clear out as easily as that which faded before Alben Barkley sweeping down the football field for Marvin College...