Word: barkleys
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...their keynoter in Philadelphia next June, Democratic chieftains last week also chose a genial, slow-spoken Senator, one every bit as big and rugged and impressive-looking as Republican Steiwer. By coming out early for Franklin Roosevelt, Kentucky's Alben William Barkley got the post of keynoter at the Democratic convention in 1932. By unwavering loyalty to the New Deal, Senator Barkley won the same reward this year. He cannot, however, rehash the same speech. Denouncing and deploring four years ago, he will this year have to commend and indorse...
...Senator Barkley of Kentucky received a call from the White House one morning canceling his appointment to lunch with the President that day. A preferred luncheon guest, Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt, had arrived unexpectedly in Washington...
That night the superintendents listened to a debate on the New Deal among Democratic Senator Alben W. Barkley Republican Henry J. Allen (both in dinner jackets) and Socialist Norman Thomas (in business suit), rendered a decisive verdict by applause to Socialist Thomas...
...been aroused to unusual electoral consciousness by a bitter intraparty primary, and that the election, to an unusual degree in this election-ridden State, was an ever-present subject in the minds of our citizenship generally and particularly in the Democratic portion. . . . There came into Kentucky Democratic Senators Barkley and Logan, the scholarly orator. ex-Governor and ex-Senator Stanley, Mrs. Ross, a woman ex-Governor from the West, several of Kentucky's Democratic Congressional delegation and others, who. with our local orators, upon every slump proclaimed the glory of the President and how a vote against the Democratic...
...Senators Barkley of Kentucky, Clark of Missouri and Robinson of Arkansas, being fat men, seem fairly jolly most of the time. But the crowd which went down to the dock to bid farewell to the highest ranking U. S. officer ever to visit the Philippines and his fellow-travelers , found the gaunt face of Speaker of the House Byrns one vast crinkly mass of smiles; Representative Bertrand Snell, the dour New Yorker who leads what is left of the House Republicans, seemed positively cheerful. The fact that his mission had its serious diplomatic side, to show the Orient that...