Word: barkleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With no drums and tramplings, Kentucky's Senator Alben Barkley hit the road. Accompanied by only two aides, the 70-year-old Democratic candidate for Vice President made little leaps around the East by airline, train, and rented car. His knee was stiff and he was suffering from a cold (which he doctored with drugstore pills), but he kept...
...never says die, had roared out of Washington promising to "give 'em hell," and promptly proceeded to do so in one of the most inflammatory speeches he had delivered to date. Before the week was out, the September campaign circuits would be jammed with the trails of Alben Barkley, Henry Wallace, and the Dixiecrats' J. Strom Thurmond. The nation's cartoonists were already hard at work. Before Nov. 2, the air would be crisscrossed with brickbats, insults and loud appeals to party spirit...
...Alben Barkley saw Harry Truman off at the station. "Mow 'em down, Harry," Alben advised. "I'm going to fight hard. I'm going to give them hell," promised the President. "You ought not to say 'hell,' " daughter Margaret admonished her father. Senator Barkley suggested: "It is going to be a victorious trip." Said Harry Truman briskly: "Yes, sir. It is going...
...which thinks of itself as-and is-a two-party nation, found itself last week with eleven different presidential tickets. Besides the Republicans' Dewey and Warren, the Democrats' Truman and Barkley, the Progressives' Wallace and Taylor, the Dixiecrats' Thurmond and Wright, there were seven other entries. Their backers were few, fanatical, as noisy as their budgets would allow...
...Personally," said Senator Alben Barkley of the spy investigation as a campaign issue, "I don't see that it is an issue. Nobody likes a Communist...