Word: barkleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Laura Louise Barkley, 22, daughter of Kentucky's Senator Alben William Barkley; and Douglas MacArthur, 25, nephew of General Douglas MacArthur, U. S. Army Chief of Staff; in Washington...
...Senator Barkley: I have not practiced law since I have been a Member of the Congress for nearly 21 years. I abandoned my practice and turned over to others all the cases I had when I came to Washington, and I have not taken a fee from anyone from that day until this. ... I thought it inappropriate for me to be attempting to run back and forth between Washington and my home in Kentucky, and neglect my official duties here while undertaking to practice law on the outside...
...voting for this measure with all my fingers and toes crossed," said Senator Barkley of Kentucky. ''I am voting for it," said Senator Stephens of Mississippi, ''with strong misgivings, with grave doubts." "I am voting against it,'' said Senator Gore of Oklahoma, ''because the farmers are winding a boa constrictor around their necks. . . . If this measure is constitutional anything is constitutional...
Scarcely five minutes later Senator Barkley from Christian Kentucky rose and said: "From the Committee...
...committee investigating air mail contracts, sat in the front row. Other front seats were taken by other legal lights of the Senate-Lawyers King of Utah, McCarran of Nevada, Robinson of Arkansas, Borah of Idaho, Johnson of California. McNary of Oregon, Logan of Kentucky, Wagner of New York, Barkley of Kentucky, Norris of Nebraska, Hastings of Delaware. Most of them at one time or another had sat on State or Federal benches. For a moment they sat in solemn silence while a clerk announced that the House had passed and asked the Senate's concurrence in bills...