Word: barkleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were generally in comfortable control. Estes Kefauver, the front runner by far in the primary votes to date, managed to pick up only 2 Chicago votes from the no delegates chosen (with 84 votes). Senator Russell got 19½ votes (all in North Carolina), Stevenson 7½, Kerr 1, Barkley 2½, Harriman 2. The remaining 492 votes were uncommitted...
They had ringing cheers, too, for guest speakers from their ally, the Truman Administration, who tumbled over one another in their efforts to flatter the steelworkers. Vice President Alben Barkley gave them his congratulations for their "fairness" and "consideration." To the steel companies, the Veep gave the back of his hand. "It is un-American," he said, "for any group . . . to defy . . . the verdict of a Government agency . . ." (He meant steel's unwillingness to accept WSB recommendations, although they are not binding on disputants.) For the Veep it was quite a speech, but it was Secretary of Labor Maurice...
Another top Democrat, looking the field over, took no comfort from what he saw. In his view, Kefauver will not stand up well under Republican campaign hammering. Adlai Stevenson will be badly hurt by the fact that he was a character witness for Alger Hiss. Barkley is too old. Harriman's platform and television performances probably would be the worst of the lot. Oklahoma's Kerr is relatively unknown...
...first time in twelve years. After a barbecue picnic on the lawn, Barkley, 74, beamed tirelessly for the photographers and said, "Well, John, if they didn't ask for more pictures, we would know we were slipping." Host Garner, 83, smiled again. Yukio Ozaki, 93, onetime mayor of Tokyo, who sent the cherry trees to Washington-as a good will gesture some 40 years ago, surprised his doctors by getting up from his "deathbed" to sit on his veranda and write a little poem in memory of the gift. The poem...
Following the leading five on both ballots were many others, including a rash of write-ins. Of the other 17 Democrats who received votes (13 write-ins), Truman led with 25, followed by Senator Paul Douglas, Senator Brien McMahon, Governor G. Mennen Williams, Vice-President Alben Barkley, Senator Robert S. Kerr, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Senator John Rankin and Governor Paul Dever...