Word: barkleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Senator Alben Barldey of Kentucky clutched convulsively at his pride and howled in pain when he learned that Montana's Burton K. Wheeler had contended that Kentucky has a desert training center. "A desert in country like Kentucky!" Barkley cried. "Why, there is more sand and scrub in the City Park in Butte . . . than there is in the whole of the old Kentucky home." He found a transcript of the Montanan's remarks, fell to studying, presently announced that Wheeler must have had Fort Knox's cookery school in mind and meant to say "dessert...
...tougher going in November. His competition will be grey-haired Republican Simeon S. Willis, 63, a corporation lawyer and former judge. Republicans are hopeful that Kentucky is going G.O.P., that Willis will become the State's first Republican Governor since 1931. They are planning now to thrash Alben Barkley, the Senate's Majority Leader, next year. Even friends agree that White House Wheelhorse Barkley has jeopardized his narrow hold in Keutucky by blindly supporting unpopular administration proposals: the lid on farm prices, the fight against antistrike legislation...
Robert Gray Axtell (Economics), Robert Heywood Hoskins (Mathematics), George Barkley Hutchison, Jr. (Mathematics), Stanley Martin Jacks (Economics), Perry Deyo Le Fevre (History), Francis Joseph O'Connor (Romance Languages and Literatures), Dick S Payne (Government), Joseph Abraham Zilber (Mathematics...
...Senate's patient, plodding majority leader, Alben Barkley, stepped out of character as a loyal New Dealer, joined Missouri's Harry Truman in a furious attack on the Government's record in helping small business get war contracts. Said Alben Barkley: "I have held my tongue in my cheek as long as I am going to hold it there about this situation...
...adopted. In the final bill, written by Senate and House Committees with as little regard for Treasury feelings as was humanly decent, Congress inserted a clause which authorized it to short-circuit the Secretary in seeking advice and statistics from Treasury experts. Faithful Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley pleaded with his colleagues not "to slap the Secretary of the Treasury in the face," but the clause was adopted by a Senate vote...