Word: barkleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day, to save their voices, the Southern Senators changed their tactics: they stayed away in droves to prevent a quorum. Majority leader Alben W. Barkley, stubbornly determined to get action, got the Senate to order the arrest of eight missing members who were known to be in Washington. The sergeant at arms' staff routed Nevada's Senator Berkeley L. Bunker out of his office by using a passkey, captured Tennessee's Kenneth McKellar by inducing a chambermaid to unlock his hotel apartment. South Carolina's Senator Burnet R. Maybank, reached at his home by telephone...
...Democratic victory, Speaker Sam Rayburn with a stanch defense of the Congress. Before week's end most of the party's bigwigs would be insisting that this is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party: Senate Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley in Illinois and Michigan, Senator Albert B. Chandler in Illinois, Senator Claude Pepper in California, Senator Robert F. Wagner in Rhode Island, Senator Lister Hill in New Jersey...
Then up rose Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley. He wanted to make a final attempt to get the Senate back into the war-minded, driving frame it was in a few days before...
...Perhaps General Marshall had made a mistake in taking his military training at the Virginia Military Institute and by spending his life since in the Army, instead of taking it in the Senate," shouted Alben Barkley. "But I am not going to substitute my experience as a United States Senator and as a military strategist and organizer within these four walls for the expert knowledge which he possesses...
Senate Democratic leader Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky said consideration of the Senate bill, to be formally reported tomorrow, will be undertaken "at the earliest possible opportunity"--probably on Tuesday...