Word: barkleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...General, he became known as "the headsman" when he swept some 40,000 Republican postmasters off the payroll. In Cleveland's second term, he was Vice President. Lewis Green Stevenson, his son, was Illinois' secretary of state in 1914-16. (Another relative in politics: Vice President Alben Barkley, whose grandmother was Grandfather Adlai's first cousin.) Father Stevenson tried to warn his son Adlai away from politics. "Don't ever get mixed up in that dirty game," he said firmly...
Getting culture into the Milton Berle show might have daunted even hardier men than NBC's executives. It was accomplished by having Milton go offstage while Vice President Alben Barkley came on, to talk about Abraham Lincoln. Howdy Doody was swung into line with a children's newsreel, and The Aldrich Family contributed its mite by devoting one show to a discussion of the basic types of English sentence structure...
...clean-living folk hero, the Ranger has been applauded by Boy Scout councils, the General Federation of Women's Clubs, parent-teachers' associations, and such notables as Vice President Alben Barkley, U.N. Delegate Warren Austin, J. Edgar Hoover ("The Lone Ranger is one of the greatest forces for juvenile good in the country"), and Bernard Baruch ("The same thrill I got as a boy reading Oliver Optic and Horatio Alger"). Creator Trendle offers his own recipe for the show's long life: "It is just plain, good, healthy American entertainment which will not offend anyone, because there...
...Arabs, no selfish national design motivated the clumsy U.S. support of Israel. The American crime was not to help the Jews, but to help them at the expense of the Arabs. Today, the Arab world fears and expects a further Israeli expansion. The Arabs are well aware that Alben Barkley, Vice President of the U.S., tours his country making speeches for the half-billion-dollar Israeli bond issue, the largest ever offered to the U.S. public. Nobody, they note bitterly, is raising that kind of money for them...
Vice President Alben W. Barkley is 73 years old. In five days last week, Barkley, stumping for the Democratic ticket in a Kentucky state election, made speeches at Ashland, Pikesville, Cynthiana, Covington, Glasgow, Scottsville, Bowling Green, Elizabethtown, Henderson, Madisonville, Princeton and Hopkinsville. Home in Paducah a day before the election, the Veep made a dozen more speeches in neighboring towns. After the campaign was over, this week he was slated to speak at Cincinnati and Columbus before whipping out to the West Coast for seven speeches in seven days...