Word: barkleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weary figure of the Senate majority leader reflected both the dignity and pathos of a faithful St. Bernard Plodding doggedly through all-day conferences in his Capitol office, Alben Barkley rescued what he could...
...Administration's strategist, Majority Leader Alben Barkley, quickly sensed the sentiment. In four days of adroit maneuvering, he got approval (by the Senate Banking Committee) of a new OPA formula. Out the window went a compromise Bob Taft thought he had arranged. This week the Senate's battle of price control started all over again. U.S. citizens watched it anxiously. There was a strong move to take all controls off meat, poultry and dairy products. Only on rent controls did nearly everyone seem agreed, whatever bill Congress passed, it was all but certain that there would be ceilings...
...Senate forces of Barkley and Taft prepared yesterday to tear up the battleground of price control, the nine-man Harvard Committee to Save O.P.A. set the hour of noon tomorrow as the time for students in the University to put themselves on record in favor of effective price ceilings...
...Congress were snarling at each other; the gap between them was greater than ever. New Hampshire's Senator Charles Tobey angrily exhibited a peculiar example of Presidential rancor (see The Congress). At memorial services for Franklin Roosevelt in the House chamber this week, Senate Majority Leader Alben Barkley, ruffled as a wet hen over Harry Truman's rejection of his advice on the OPA bill, stiffly snubbed the President's overture of friendship. For Harry Truman's pat on his arm, the Kentucky Senator had only a formal...
Stalling Action. It was clear now that every section of the emergency measure was in for rough treatment. Democrats scurried again to recommit the bill, lost again by 40-to-42. Then Alben Barkley showed that the White House itself was squirming to get off the hook. He offered amendments that filed down the bill's sharp teeth in almost every section. He fought hard against others that would have put some teeth back in. The Senate scrambled Party lines, produced curious alliances and strange turnabouts. At one point Alben Barkley remarked: "To see the Senator from Florida [Pepper...