Word: barkleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...correctly address the Vice President of the U.S., a reporter wanted to know. Well, said Alben Barkley in a relaxed moment last week, at work some called him Mr. President (because he is president of the Senate). Some called him Mr. Vice President, which is correct according to Emily Post, but a mouthful, and some still called him Senator. "But my children call me 'Veep,' " he confided...
...week's end, Barkley discovered that he had added a new word to the language. "Darned if it hasn't gone all over the country now," he said. "Every time I pick up a paper I find I'm 'The Veep...
...other is led by McGrath, who is worried about getting the Truman program through Congress, and wants to reward at least the milder Dixiecrats: Harry Truman needs their votes in Congress. Last week the two factions took their problems to the White House, accompanied by Vice President Alben Barkley, House Majority Leader John McCormack and Speaker Sam Rayburn. When they emerged, McGrath blandly assured newsmen that Congressmen's "loyalty will be judged back in their home districts," not by their voting record in Congress...
...unruffled. He greeted more acquaintances, had a friendly chat with Ohio's Senator Robert A. Taft, and sampled a little bourbon & branch water. Then he headed for the office of Vice President Alben Barkley (who was traveling in the South), sat down at Barkley's desk and scribbled a note...
Ernest Reuter, the Lord Mayor of blockaded Berlin, came to Washington to attend the U.S. Conference of Mayors and was cordially greeted by Vice President Alben Barkley. Britain's wartime Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, stepped ashore from the Cunard liner Queen Elizabeth, looking pale and tired but still smoking a big cigar, and still eyeing the world with lively attention. He was picketed by left-wingers in Manhattan, but to most U.S. citizens he was still a brave and oaklike figure-the man who, in Fulton, Mo. on his last visit to the U.S., had called-dramatic attention...