Word: barkleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate the name calling was even hotter. As usual the good intentions of earnest Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley paved the way. Barkley (another of the absentees) said the pension law was "untimely and unfortunate"; he hoped a committee would quickly report a repealer; if not, he would take matters into his own hands...
...symbol of U.S. confidence was Senator Alben Barkley. Said he, with majestic self-control: "We have steeled ourselves to expect some temporary reverses. . . ." The image of the strange, W. C. Fields-like dignity which gripped much of the U.S. was Senator Tom Connally. Said he, transcending the headlines of the week: "Experts for years have regarded the Philippines as a military liability...
...real Churchill eloquence came later, at a joint session of Congress which Senate Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley, who arranged it, will always consider one of his proudest accomplishments...
...rendezvous with Churchill, written by Correspondent Chesly Manly, said that "the grand strategy of the new Anglo-American-Russian alliance" included "the assistance of a vast American expeditionary force." When the President read that report he hit the ceiling. Steve Early, in no playful humor, called Senator Barkley, Representative Sol Bloom, other leaders in whom Roosevelt had confided, and accused them of misrepresenting the President's remarks. Hopping mad, the Congressmen elected Senator Barkley to go after Correspondent Manly...
Next day, in a city famed for denunciations of reporters, Senator Barkley delivered the most blistering denunciation of Correspondent Manly and the Tribune that Washington had heard in many a day. The gist: that Manly's alleged inside story was "a deliberate, and malicious falsehood out of the whole cloth." Correspondent Manly stuck to his story. Colonel McCormick backed him up with a scorching anti-Roosevelt editorial running almost a column...