Word: barkleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...looked sort of sheepish. He seemed more bashful than ever when Guffey opened up with a speech of thunderous praise. Then Guffey turned things over to Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, who as toastmaster heaped on more praise. From Henry Wallace, Archibald MacLeish, the Senate's Alben Barkley came more panegyrics, more acclaim...
...refer to ... Senator Alben Barkley and . . . Senator Pepper and their Communistic New York City fellow travelers' efforts to unconstitutionally set up voting requirements for eight of our States...
Real American citizens endorse and encourage that courageous band of Senators in their filibuster fight to save our Republican form of Government, and bitterly resent such traitors to Democracy as Senators Barkley, Pepper, and their Communistic colleagues. They are the real impeders...
...Alben W. Barkley, leader of the U.S. Senate majority, was droning out terms of a humiliating surrender to a handful of Southern Senators. In seven days' filibuster they had tongue-lashed the leader and a majority of the Senate to defeat...
Under musty, dynastic Senate rules, there was no other course left to Alben Barkley. The cloture vote was perfunctory. Only four times in history had the Senate suspended the sacred right of Senate filibusterers to filibuster. This was not one of them. The vote was 37 for limitation of debate; 41 against. (A two-thirds majority is required to invoke cloture...