Word: barkleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...couch in the Oval Room, his upstairs White House study. Seated on straight-backed chairs facing him were Charles McNary and Warren Austin, the No. 1 & 2 Republicans of the Senate, and William Edgar Borah, the Senate's dean on Foreign Affairs. Seated nearby also were "Dear Alben" Barkley, the loyal but bemused Senate Majority Leader; Secretary of State Hull; Chairman Key Pittman of the Foreign Relations Committee, White House Secretary Steve Early. Slowly revolving a cigar between pursed lips, looking more than ever owlish, Vice President "Cactus Jack" Garner was also there...
...Began committee hearings on President Roosevelt's $2,660,000,000 "self-liquidating" loan program, introduced by Majority Leader Barkley...
...prearrangement with the Republicans, Democrat Tydings of Maryland, whom Franklin Roosevelt tried to "purge" last year, got the floor. The galleries were packed. Majority Leader Barkley's jaw muscles twitched in angry impotence. Sweetly relishing his revenge, Senator Tydings cried: "Shall we, now that the time limit is expiring, recapture the right vested in the Congress by the Constitution to fix the value of the nation's money? Or shall we give up that power in advance, without an emergency, to the President of the United States, and deprive ourselves of the power, in case of future need...
...half billions was the total in the Lend-Spenders' minds for their new pump-priming act. Secretary Morgenthau was reported to have traded his support to the plan in return for the President's acquiescence in income tax revision (see p. 16). Majority Leader Barkley assured his Senate mates that the program, whatever shape it might finally take, would not be dumped sensationally into Congress' lap this session. The way for it might be paved simply by extending the authority of existing agencies, such...
...From the House's supply bill for civil functions of the War Department ($305,188,154), the Senate Appropriations Committee manfully chopped $25,000,000 of rivers & harbors pork, $25,000,000 of flood control works. On the Senate floor, restlessness to restore these items impelled Majority Leader Barkley to promise that, if Senators would let the savings stand, the President would spend equivalent sums on these projects from Relief moneys. Avoiding a record vote, the Senators assured themselves of credit with the home folks, voted the $50,000,000 back...