Word: barkleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chairman Barkley subsided, turned away, waiting for the applause to stop. There was no applause. The bulbous Senator turned back, carefully read off the President's words. At this point all hell was supposed to break loose. But most of the delegates stood pat in their places, staring anxiously at the panting, roaring marchers. Then Mr. Garry broke loose. As the noise died from time to time, good Mr. Barkley would shout into the microphone: "We want Roosevelt!" Thus encouraged, Mr. Garry redoubled his roars. Mayor Kelly beamed; a man sitting in his box shouted, "Hey, Ed, We Planned...
...Barkley had another idea. As the noise waned, he roared: "Will the galleries remember they are our guests here and conduct themselves accordingly?" Galleryites, still quiet as mice, looked wonderingly at each other and went home en masse...
...Garner demonstration went doggedly around the hall once to the tune of The Eyes of Texas Are Upon You. Then bumblemaster Barkley announced portentously: "The roll call is concluded. The clerk will now call the roll...
...Alben Barkley's dull roar died away. In its stead, for a long moment during the Democratic Convention last week, there was only the manifold murmur of the crowd in the Chicago Stadium. The sweating, shuffling, staring thousands had just heard Franklin Roosevelt's inconclusive message that he could be had (see p. 9), wondered what would happen next. Suddenly the loudspeakers clustered above the delegates came alive. A voice thundered...
...Voice which thus lifted delegates and spectators from apathy into their first big, draft-Roosevelt demonstration belonged neither to Alben Barkley, to the People, nor to God. Politically it belonged to Chicago Bosses Ed Kelly and Pat Nash: technically, to their Superintendent of Sewers Thomas D. ("for Democrat") Garry...