Word: barkleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Theme Song: President Hoover has woefully mismanaged the Government, beguiled the country with false promises KENTUCKY'S BARKLEY He flayed a "congregation of harpies." and demonstrated his unworthiness to hold...
...effort to be more temperate and fair than G. O. Partisans had been to his party, Keynoter Barkley tucked this paragraph into his speech...
...Roller on Tariff. Senator Barkley log-rolled a tariff on coal into the new Tax bill (TIME, May 30). Nevertheless as party keynoter he excoriated what he called the Hoover-Grundy Tariff Act, forced through by a "congregation of harpies" and signed by the President "with an apology...
...propose," shouted Senator Barkley, "to reduce the exorbitant and indefensible rates ... to inaugurate friendly international trade conferences. . . . The Democratic Party does not advocate free trade. [We] wrote, sponsored and secured the passage of a measure which ought to lift tariff-making above the sordid processes of log-rollers and back-scratchers and place it upon the high plane of scientific knowledge. ... But Mr. Hoover vetoed the measure...
...Farm Board was flayed for "stabilizing wheat from $1.25 per bu. down to 30¢, corn from 75¢ per bu. down to 20¢, cotton from 15¢ per Ib. down to 5¢, wool from 20¢ per Ib. down to 7¢" at a public cost of $500,000,000. But Senator Barkley's only concrete suggestions were to lend the farmers more money like "other forms of industry and finance" and to "take the Government out of the dubious adventure of speculation in farm products...