Word: barkleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ovation. Senator Alben Barkley formally nominated Franklin Roosevelt next afternoon, in 40 minutes of ponderous eulogy. Instantly the aisles were crowded with marchers, hundreds of delegates ably abetted by the leather-lunged 27th Ward-heelers who stooge for Chicago's Mayor Ed Kelly. Placards which they had been holding face down as they sat were now waved high: "Roosevelt and Victory"; "Roosevelt and Lasting Peace." The organ, and a brassy band above it in the gallery, blanketed the loud speakers with furious music. Timed, the actual cheering for the President lasted only 14 seconds; after that the organ...
...President's own list of men acceptable to him, in order of preference, was: 1) Home Front Czar James F. Byrnes; 2) Supreme Court Justice William 0. Douglas; 3) Ambassador to the Court of St. James's John G. Winant. Other candidates: the Senate leader, Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky, Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas, Circuit Court Judge Sherman Minton of Indiana, War Manpower Commissioner Paul McNutt of Indiana, Senator Harry Truman of Missouri. Some Washington rumors had it that Wendell Willkie had been sounded out for the job. Sam Rosenman had joined Harold Ickes and Tommy Corcoran...
...rest, there was Missouri's Senator Harry Truman (who might help carry his Midwest border state); Speaker Sam Rayburn (who should please the South); Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd (who might attract a stray conservative vote); Senate Leader Alben Barkley, Economic Stabilizer Jimmy Byrnes, WMC Boss Paul McNutt and even such outsiders as Utah's Senator Elbert Thomas and Tennessee's Governor Prentice Cooper...
...President whenever he wants, through the White House back door. Hannegan then devoted two-thirds of his speech to an assault on New York's Governor Thomas Dewey ("who copies down the answers on his little slate after the examination is all over"). In Collier's, Alben Barkley, sublimely oblivious of his dramatic break with the President, used 3,000 words to say why he, too, is for Term...
...When Hopkins finally pulled through, no one was certain which drug-if any-had turned the trick. (That was WPA's toughest year, when Scripps-Howard Reporter Tom Stokes won a Pulitzer prize for exposing the use of the relief vote in re-electing Kentucky's Alben Barkley...