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...Young's 1950 income, according to his own advance estimate, touched the neighborhood of $60,000. The work left him time for various extracurricular activities. He was advance man for Vice President Alben Barkley's cross-country political tour last fall, maintained daily long-distance contact with the President and National Democratic Chairman Bill Boyle. Through it all, Lauretta Young held on to her $4,700-a-year post as secretary to the President's secretary...
...Most Important Man. The climax of the show brought the President out of his mood of beaming good humor with a start. When Mrs. Alben Barkley wheeled onstage "the most important man in the U.S.," Pfc. Anthony Troilo, 25, who had lost both legs in Korea, Harry Truman was the first man on his feet, grim-jawed and clapping...
After escorting Duff to the rostrum to be sworn in by Vice President Barkley, Martin asked that the galleries be permitted to rise. "So far as the Chair knows," said Barkley good-naturedly, "it has never been customary or necessary to give unanimous consent for Pennsylvanians to arise anywhere they are." The galleries, packed almost solid with Pennsylvanians, arose. Then Big Jim Duff, the man who licked the Grundy machine in the primaries, licked the Fair Deal's Francis Myers in November, took his seat-an able, rugged, progressive addition to the Republican side of the Senate...
...nation. Its effect, as many signers agreed, was that his prestige abroad was seriously damaged at a critical moment in diplomatic affairs. This week, dragging the G.O.P.'s clattering repudiation behind him, Acheson flew off to the Brussels conference aboard Truman's personal plane, the Independence. Alben Barkley and George Marshall were on hand to see him off, and Harry Truman sent word that Acheson has "my complete confidence...
...Alben Barkley, with a stuffy nose and a racking cough, presided over the Senate in the old Supreme Court chamber* where there is barely room to swing a cat. Occasionally, he tapped for order with the tiny blob of ivory that serves as his gavel...