Word: barkleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that can be said is that his editing of Hemingway's material is questionable. None of the close-knit Hemingway scenes were without importance: they were all inseparable and significant. By eliminating such memorable sequences as Lieut. Henry's wounding, his escape into Switzerland with Nurse Catherine Barkley (which would have been almost impossible to dramatize), Mr. Stallings has given his play a hurried, ragged, not always coherent atmosphere...
Declared Senator Alben William Barkley of Kentucky, heretofore no Russian recruit: "An American entering Russia must unlearn a good deal. . . . I never saw such optimism. . . . If the stable government now maintained by the Soviet is continued, the U. S. will have to give serious consideration to negotiations looking toward recognition...
Normally Mr. Girdler is an even-tempered gentleman. But what he considers injustice "raises his dander." Forthwith he last week fired a fusillade of protesting telegrams. Most significant were the brace which went to Kentucky's Senator Alben William Barkley and Representative Maurice Hudson Thatcher urging them instantly to remind President Hoover and Secretary Lamont of the Hoover opposition against Government competition with private business, to appeal for continued Government purchase and support of private helium...
First tug was given by James Clifton Stone, vice-chairman of the Federal Farm Board. From Kentucky, he represents tobacco growers on the Board. His proposal: a 50% reduction in all U. S. tobacco taxes. At the Capitol Senator Alben William Barkley of Kentucky and other members from tobacco-growing States were cheered at this potent support for their efforts, so far ineffectual, to ''relieve" tobacco growers...