Word: barkleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when he said he had looked up "smear" in the dictionary and found it meant "to anoint a dead body with sacred oil before burial." Commander Evangeline Booth of the Salvation Army prayed. Mayor Cermak rumbled a speech of welcome which soon descended to a partisan harangue. Then Senator Barkley, tall, paunchy, all in white, launched vigorously into his keynote address (see p. 12). Most delegates, mindful of the fight to come, did not overtax their lungs or palms with applause...
...garments of life and of hope. We meet to fulfill an appointment with Destiny. ... We must by a major operation remove from the body of our nation the dead flesh and decayed bones resulting from twelve years of Republican quackery." These were the words of Senator Alben William Barkley of Kentucky "keynoting" to the Democratic National Convention in the Chicago Stadium last week. The ideas behind them?the real voice?belonged 'to Franklin Delano Roosevelt who had picked the Kentucky Senator as the convention's temporary chairman and had previewed his speech a fortnight ago at Albany. The character...
Last April a Democratic group designated by the National Committee met in Chicago to arrange for the June convention. At the meeting Roosevelt men were about evenly arrayed against anti-Roosevelt men. To avert a schism a compromise was effected whereby Kentucky's Senator Barkley, a Roosevelt supporter, was "recommended" to the convention as temporary chairman and keynoter. Jouett Shouse, chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee at Washington headquarters, was "commended" as permanent chairman. A Raskobite, Mr. Shouse has spent the last three years keeping his party alive and active in opposing the Hoover Administration. To him more than...
Nepotism also runs high in the Senate where blood relatives are listed as secretaries to Kentucky's Barkley and Logan, South Dakota's Bulow, Tennessee's McKellar, Minnesota's Schall, Delaware's Townsend, Florida's Trammell*, Iowa's Brookhart. Last week the case of Senator Brookhart was a large campaign issue in his State's Republican primary (June...
...Four and no more" was the motto of the Finance Committee when it wrote these tariff items into its tax bill. Progressive Republicans and low-tariff Democrats loudly denounced their inclusion as the result of logrolling. An apparent Democratic trade: Barkley of coal-producing Kentucky would vote for an oil tariff if Connally of oil-bearing Texas would vote for a coal duty. Hayden of copper-mining Arizona would support both levies if Messrs. Barkley and Connally would help him get a rate on copper...