Word: barkleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tougher (TIME, March 18). Rallied behind Gospeleer Hatch were Mahout Charles McNary of Oregon and his 22 Republican elephants, all of them acting like poker-faced converts, but none of whom had ever before shown any absorbing interest in pure politics. At his shoulder were Kentucky's Alben Barkley and Happy Chandler, whose desperately dirty 1938 campaign had roused public support to Hatch Bill I. Then Senate Leader Barkley had used WPA to counteract Governor Chandler's Highways Department payrollers. Now both had seen the light. Said Happy to Alben: "I'm for this bill. I wouldn...
...Amended the Barkley stream-pollution bill to put "teeth" in pollution-prevention measures by authorizing court-proceedings against violators as public nuisances...
...billion dollars' worth of securities not listed on these exchanges, watches their brokers regulate themselves. Under the Chandler Act (1938) it has loud kibitzing powers over corporate reorganizations, has watched the progress of 548 companies with pre-bankruptcy assets of $640,200,000 through the courts. Under the Barkley Act (1939) it must approve trust indentures. Under the Public Utilities Holding Company Act (1935) it has the broadest, toughest job of all: authority over the affairs of about half the U. S. power industry, the half (gross assets: $15,000,000,000 plus) that belongs to the great interstate...
...clear at the conclusion of his talk that nobody could accuse him of wanting to aid Finland either. Senator George of Georgia talked just as long in the same cause, proclaiming his inability to tell the difference between sending money to Finland and sending a battleship. Vainly Administration Leader Barkley insisted that there was no violation of U. S. neutrality in the President's suggestion, reminded Senators that the Export-Import Bank had lent $25,000,000 to China without jeopardizing U. S. neutrality...
Last year, 30 days after the opening of Session I, Senate Leader Alben Barkley of Kentucky complained that the Congress had nothing to do. Three months later the Senate was still taking three-day recesses for want of work. As usual, in the last two or three weeks, Session I jammed through the entire legislative program in a last-minute, lickety-split finish...