Word: barkleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago's nickname, "Windy City." After weary days of debate, several hundred Senators and Representatives sweated to finish the measure. With speed that shamed the dilatory arguments in Congress, the President issued the necessary Executive Order establishing an Office of Economic Stabilization with Justice Byrnes as its Director. Senator Barkley immediately said that Congress had done "a marvelous...
After Prentiss Brown's performance, Majority Leader Alben Barkley of Kentucky recessed the Senate, coolly calculating that public and private pressures would make themselves felt over the weekend. By Monday morning the farm bloc was scrabbling around for a compromise. Brown stood firm. Barkley let the debate drag. The lobbyists met that night-this time with a smaller bloc of the faithful. The Administration now had the votes. The immediate peril was over...
...State administrators turned out to be strangely nonpolitical, in many cases not even good New Deal Democrats. There was one notable exception: in Kentucky, after a stubborn fight with non-politics-minded OPA, the job went to WPAdministrator George H. Goodman, whose WPA campaigned mightily for Senator Alben Barkley...
...Senator Barkley also congratulated Senator Walsh "upon the calm demeanor which he has exhibited in the face of this contemptuous and contemptible charge." Last week, after Senator Barkley revealed the scandal to the nation at large, Senator Walsh's calm demeanor continued. Up to this week he had yet to file a libel suit against the Post...
Uncontrite. the Post promptly called Senator Barkley's report a "whitewash." demanded the FBI's report be made public, asked for a full Senate investigation...