Word: barkleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...radio. Even in his office he kept a gadget pocket radio open on his desk. When the Convention sank into confusion after its spiritless opening, he talked long with Harry Hopkins in Chicago, used the direct wire from the White House to confer long with Senators Byrnes and Barkley. When Alabama's Lister Hill, with lamenting tremolos and quaverollos in his voice, placed the name of Franklin Roosevelt in nomination, no sign or word betrayed Franklin Roosevelt's emotion. But Steve Early, an accurate barometer of the President's political feelings, groaned...
...Columnist Robert Kintner and Newshawk Turner Catledge of the New York Times had seen the message. Word quickly spread-and by the time bumble-tumble Mr. Barkley began bellowing at 9 p.m. C. D. S. T., only galleryites and radio listeners wondered what he was going...
...Hopkins strategy was simple. Delay seemed to be growing dangerous, so, immediately after Barkley had read the Roosevelt message freeing his delegates, a mammoth demonstration would be staged, an ecstatic delegate primed to seize the microphone and move the nomination by acclamation, and the trick would be turned in the most convincing manner possible...
...something happened: clumsy Alben Barkley dumbed it up by mentioning the magic name of Roosevelt after only the first 14 minutes of the address. With this first real chance to cheer, a horde of the delegates actually staged an honest demonstration, marching, blatting, screaming. Significantly the galleryites sat in bored silence; some of them even drifted away, knowing they could read about the President's message in the newspapers. When this demonstration gave signs of faltering, the organist whipped the marchers on with Franklin D. Roosevelt Jones...
...last Chairman Barkley restored order by asking for a doctor: "A lady has been seriously injured!" The demonstration stopped immediately and the paunchy Kentuckian bellowed on with his speech...