Word: barkleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dined. He was dressed in his frock coat and encased in a copper casket stippled over with silver which was stood in the same gloomy corner where the caskets of Senator Walsh and Senator Fletcher stood not long ago. The next morning 15 Senators led by Assistant Leader Barkley appeared at Hysong's. By orders of Mrs. Robinson nobody was to see the body, so they settled themselves in the room across the corridor, where food and drink were brought them and they remained until the establishment closed at 10 p. m., visiting with one another and with some...
...daring to oppose him. Burning with anger, most of the Democratic Senators opposed to the bill promptly volunteered to go to Indiana and campaign for Mr. Van Nuys next year. Their anger soon rose to greater heights. Day before the Robinson funeral, the President wrote a letter to Senator Barkley who was spending the day at Hysong's funeral parlor...
...stepped out before the funeral with his "message to Alben," not only taking up politics immediately but accusing others of not observing a decent mourning period, a good deal of Congressional blood boiled. It was not cooled by what Senators took to be an oblique effort to boost Senator Barkley as Senator Robinson's successor (see col. 2). Instead of healing, the Democratic split widened sorely. The death of Robinson had become not only a grief, but a turning point in politics. Only for Robinson did it mean an end of strife...
Great things were at stake: the fate of the President's Court Bill, and equally important, the choice of a majority leader to succeed Senator Robinson. Senator Alben Barkley of Kentucky, choice of the President for the post, and Senator Pat Harrison, backed by most of the veteran Senators and Court Bill opponents, were the rival candidates. Both kept pretty much to their staterooms. But their friends and supporters lobbied all over the train keeping a jealous eye on one another. The Republicans aboard, led by Senators Vandenberg and Bridges, looked on happily. The rest, even Senator La Follette...
...Alben Barkley is not the most popular man in the Senate. Behind him lined up mostly zealous New Dealers and freshmen Senators. Pat Harrison, on the other hand, is one of the best-liked Senators. Behind him lined up most of the anti-Roosevelt Democrats who knew he was a conservative at heart, and seasoned Senators to whom Pat Harrison is a grand old guy. Being as loyal as Joe Robinson, Pat Harrison has stood by the President, even unto the Supreme Court Bill, but not with vociferous enthusiasm. Thus both contenders were in favor of the Court Bill...