Word: barkleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...freshman Senator. Tangling jovially with the late Alben Berkley in a private joust, Capehart twitted the then Democratic Senator from Kentucky: "If it hadn't been for the Ohio River, there wouldn't be any Kentucky. It would all have been Indiana." Confidentially responded future Veep Barkley: "Yes, and if that were true, I would have been the Senator...
Died. Lisa Larsen, 34, world-roving LIFE photographer, 1958's "Magazine Photographer of the Year" for her report on Outer Mongolia, favorite of statesmen of all types (Alben Barkley called her Mona Lisa; Nikita Khrushchev once gave her a bouquet of pink, white and red peonies); of cancer; in Manhattan...
...flutter between Mrs. Alben Berkley, 45, widow of the onetime Vice President, and cue-bald Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, 75. Bachelor (since a brief 1927 marriage) Rayburn, who squired the lady to Senator Lyndon Johnson's 49th birthday party last week, was not talking, but Jane Barkley was: "For heaven's sake! I enjoy his company immensely, and that's that...
...percentages. Harry Truman, battling violently against his final Democratic Congress, managed to push, pull and maneuver through only a fraction of his requests. And Franklin Roosevelt, in his later terms, had to deal with a Democratic Congress that was in open revolt, a Senate Majority Leader (Alben Barkley) who resigned rather than back him, and a Senate that was in a mood to make a rare gesture by voting down the nomination of Henry Wallace for Secretary of Commerce...
...week ago tonight four august figures--Adlai Stevenson, Harry Truman, Foster Furcolo, and the spirit of Alben Barkley (represented by Mrs. Barkley)--gathered together, and held what might be called a minstrel show. Its purposes were twofold: to help pay Democratic campaign deficits and, in passing, to give Eisenhower a few licks. We don't really object to either of these enterprises, but we were a bit horrified at how the whole thing came off. None of the august personages (except perhaps Truman) seemed very easy about throwing bottles at the President-umpire. Perhaps it was merely that the Democrats...