Word: barkleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bill's proposed tariffs on oil, coal, lumber and copper spoiled its non-partisan character. Five Democrats of the Finance Committee signed a minority report flaying the log-rolling which put such duties into the measure. Democratic committeemen who did not sign this report were Kentucky's Barkley, proponent of a coal tariff; Texas' Connally and Oklahoma's Gore, proponents of a duty on oil; and Utah's King, copper...
...earning $3 a Sunday singing in the Methodist Church choir of Bloomington. Ind. ; and tall (6 ft. 2½ in.) James Melton from Ocala, Fla. In 1929, shortly before the quartet took its first European tour, young James Melton married Marjorie Louise McClure, daughter of Novelist Marjorie Barkley McClure. The Revelers earn their big money now broadcasting for Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. over a nation-wide hookup. They broadcast for Buick too, over a midwestern hookup. With a substantial Coca-Cola contract be sides, James Melton will make an easy $100,000 this year. It enables him to live...
...After a table-pounding, all day session in Chicago, a sub-committee of 23 Democratic National Committeemen chose Senator Alben William Barkley of Kentucky, Roosevelt supporter, to be keynoter at the national convention. Jouett Shouse, rival for the position, was recommended for convention chairmanship...
...Approved a bill by Kentucky's Barkley to waive the requirement that soldier bonus certificates must have been in force for two years before veterans may borrow 50% on them...
...responsible for recent legislation reorganizing and jacking up the Federal Power Commission. All power witnesses before it are suspected at the outset and the inquisitorial questions of such Senators as Nebraska's Howell, Iowa's Brookhart, Washington's Dill, Montana's Wheeler, New York's Wagner and Kentucky's Barkley seem designed to elicit testimony to discredit the present system of utility regulation. Despite the fact that service with a power company might well constitute good training for a power regulator, no such connection ever seems too small or old or indirect for the Couzens committee...