Word: barkleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conference's close, bumbling Alben Barkley told newsmen that the Administration would go after Congressional approval of a resolution for extending the service term, added: "When the need for legislation becomes apparent I believe Congress will in no way shirk its duty...
...news of that step came to the public when the President sent a message to Congress. The night before, the President had called seven Congressional leaders to a very secret conference at the White House-Senate Leader Barkley, Senators George (Foreign Relations) and Connally; Speaker Rayburn. Representatives McCormack (Majority Leader), Sol Bloom (Foreign Affairs) and Luther Johnson. The President, sitting back of his big desk in his upstairs study, was serious but in good humor, and he did most of the talking. He frankly admitted that he had taken a serious step and said he wanted to discuss it with...
...reminded of this story when I read your account of Senator Barkley's speech at the unveiling of Huey Long's statue [TIME...
...speeches went quickly, mostly the dutiful words of politicians, some old-fashioned quavering oratory by Huey's friends, through which signs of genuine emotion showed faintly. Old Senator Norris brooded sadly and in silence. Bumbling Alben Barkley talked on & on about other things, until it seemed he was not going to mention Huey at all, finally got around to Huey's courage and prowess in debate, ended with a roar: "Friend and foe alike denounced the way he was taken away!" It was a painful show. The backwoods followers of the Kingfish who still loved him could find...
...proof": two letters from unnamed persons-one a relative of a boy allegedly in the Navy who had said he had been on convoy duty, another a man who said he knew of a young girl whose fiance had told her he was leaving on convoy duty. Senator Barkley said with measured deliberation that Navy Secretary Frank Knox and Admiral Harold R. Stark had authorized him to say that "not a single ship, American or foreign, carrying any war materials from any place to any other place, had been convoyed or was being convoyed from any place to any other...