Word: barkleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...morning last week big, bluff Senator Alben Barkley rose in the caucus room of the Senate Office Building and rapped for order. Spectators filled the hall to the corners. Senator Barkley asked for absolute quiet; the acoustics are notoriously bad. The Congressional commit tee's investigation of Pearl Harbor had begun: in the days & weeks to follow, history would be dragged up from the dark corners, dusted off and laid out on the committee table for the world to read...
...first hearings were set for this week and President Truman, after considerable backing & filling, finally authorized all Army & Navy personnel to "come forward" with anything they might know about the military debacle. Then Committee Chairman Alben Barkley announced that all information, "whether top secret, secret, confidential or otherwise," would be available to all committee members...
...Pearl Harbor data, Republican members of the Congressional investigating committee proposed that individual committee members be permitted to get any information they wanted from any Government department. Democrats steamrollered them down. Promptly, Maine's Senator Brewster charged that somebody was trying to suppress information. Committee Chairman Alben Barkley replied that he did not think individual members should be permitted to "cruise" around as "private detectives," and the argument ended on that inconclusive note...
...introduced last January, was never much more than a high-sounding Government promise to try to keep everybody working. As passed (71-10) last week by the Senate, its remains were called by one cynical legislator "a damned good New Year's resolution." Disappointed Senate Majority Leader Barkley, who had seen another of Harry Truman's "musts" amended beyond recognition, snapped, "It now guarantees everybody out of work the right to seek a job-if he can find...
...Roosevelt's and Harry Truman's administrations. Federal outgo and income had not matched since June 1930, just after the beginning of the last great depression, and the national debt now stood at $26.2 billion. But when the Taft amendment was put before the Senate, "Dear Alben" Barkley spoke only a few mild-mannered words of protest. Then Georgia's economy-minded George rose to thunder...