Word: barkleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reporter, puzzling over the sheaf of complicated provisions in the bill, asked the Senate majority leader if he thought the conference had written an improved measure. "I don't know if it is a better bill or not," Barkley answered wearily...
...avalanche that had fallen upon price controls was only one more in a series of Administration disasters in the current Congress. Through every storm Alben Barkley had been plunged into the heroic task of guiding colleagues no longer inclined to be led. Last week he continued the relentless watch he had stood over the British loan, Selective Service, the atomic-energy bill and a host of favored Administration causes...
Inside his high-ceilinged office a gilt clock ticked off the minutes through five long days. OPA conferees haggled across the flat-topped table, flopped in the black leather chairs, shuffled over to the water cooler, loaded ashtrays with mountains of smoldering cigaret butts. Alben Barkley, squinting through the humid haze scribbled down the endless formulae of possible compromise. Around the corner, in the office of Senate Secretary Les Biffle,' OPAdministrator Paul Porter waited...
Still the rumpled figures in Alben Barkley's office wrangled over what should be done. A House bloc stood stubbornly in favor of restoring controls on meat, dairy products, grains and feed. A Senate group, paced by Ohio's determined Bob Taft, insisted on easing controls over the price of manufactured products...
...Congress. On the evening of the fifth day, after a final session lasting nine hours and 40 minutes, a dog-tired Alben Barkley called in the press to announce a complex compromise agreeable to eleven of the 14 conferees. A three-man Decontrol Board, appointed by the President with Senate approval, would exercise top authority over prices. OPA, although extended until June 30, 1947, would be outranked by the Board. Major proposals...