Word: barkleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Soon after he became majority leader of the Senate in 1937, Alben Barkley fell asleep at the political switch. He allowed the antilynching bill to be brought up for discussion and got his party in a jam in the closing hours of the session. Last week he nodded again-with less serious consequences...
...fortify his control over the Senate, Majority Leader Barkley got three more New Dealers (Bankhead, Minton, Green) appointed to the Steering Committee, two more (Schwartz, Smathers) appointed to the Policy Committee...
...been "unjustifiable political activity in connection with the work of the WPA in several States." The Committee did not attack Harry Hopkins' WPAdministration except to call Deputy Administrator Aubrey Williams' famed "Keep your friends in power" speech "unfortunate." The election of no Senator was impugned and Senators Barkley of Kentucky and Stewart of Tennessee were described as ignorant of the WPA pressurizing in their behalf...
...organizing the Senate the Administration might have had trouble this year for in the new Senate "moderate" (economy-minded) Democrats outnumber New Dealers. For this reason Mississippi's Pat Harrison might have ousted Kentucky's Barkley, the Majority Leader who beat him out by one vote in 1937 with Franklin Roosevelt's aid. Instead, Senator Harrison chose last week not to run for Leader this year: he did not want the job of spokesman for the Administration. "Dear Alben" was re-elected by acclamation and Illinois' elegant, whiskery old James Hamilton ("J. Ham") Lewis was persuaded...
...Senate Bone and his junior colleague, Lewis Baxter Schwellenbach, have been faithful Roosevelt men, rewarded with plenty of PWA and WPA money. Bone has shown some independence: he supported Pat Harrison for Senate Leader against the White House demand for "Dear Alben" Barkley, he voted to override the President's bonus veto, and he voted against the Reorganization Bill this year. With these major exceptions, however, Bone's record is that of a consistent New Deal Senator...