Word: barkleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When Majority Leader Joe Robinson died, Roosevelt assured Farley that there would be no White House intervention in the fight between Mississippi's Pat Harrison and Kentucky's "Dear Alben" Barkley for Robinson's job. On the way to Arkansas for the funeral, Farley duly told both men what Roosevelt had said...
...want you to call Ed Kelly of Chicago right now. Get him to put the pressure on Senator Dieterich [of Illinois] to vote for Barkley...
...Boss, I just can't,' I protested. 'I gave my word-my word to Harrison, Barkley, Byrnes and Guffey on the train...
...Taft had won his fight to keep an omnibus bill. Despite wolf cries of "veto" from Wayne Morse and Minority Leader Alben Barkley, he also put over the Ball amendment. But before the Senate approved it (60 to 28), it deleted the word "interfere," making the provision less restrictive than similar rules for employers...
...University had turned out Woodrow Wilson, Edgar Allan Poe, and such living lights as Railroader Robert Young, Senator Alben W. Barkley, Bishop Henry St. George Tucker, Erskine Caldwell, Ed Stettinius (now the University's rector). But in 1940-41, only 122 of the state's 6,856 white high-school graduates went to the University. Complained the Richmond Times-Dispatch's Editor Virginius Dabney, '20, last week: too many University students were "young wastrels [with] large bankrolls and few serious intentions of studying." What's more, he added darkly, most of the wastrels were...