Word: barkleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Genial old Alben Barkley packed up a stock of his best political pleasantries and was off last week by chartered airliner, explaining everything to the voters. From Oshkosh, Wis., through the farm belt and up along the Pacific Coast, the 72-year-old campaigner hustled from airport to auditorium, from speech to banquet to rally, always leaving them laughing...
Some of their other judgments are more debatable. Of Vice President Barkley they say, without giving any indication that they have conducted their own poll, that no one doubts "his complete capability to take over the biggest job in the world on a moment's notice and fill it creditably." And of Dean Acheson the new Merry-Go-Rounders sum up: "the greatest Secretary of State since Henry L. Stimson...
...nearest thing to it: Franklin Roosevelt's telegram to Alben Barkley, then Senate Majority Leader, after Roosevelt had called a tax bill "relief not for the needy but for the greedy." Barkley had resigned in a fury, reconsidered only after the President's apology...
...declared a Communist front. He had attended a dinner given by the Southern Conference on Human Welfare, he was free to admit, but the organization had never been labeled subversive by the Attorney General. Furthermore, the honor guest at the dinner was Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black. Alben Barkley was Toastmaster and Harry Truman was an honorary vice-chairman...
Meet the Press (Fri. 9:30 p.m., Mutual). Guest: Vice President Barkley...