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Administration leaders did a quick retake. They rejuggled Kefauver's proposal so that Vice President Barkley would do the picking. No one thought that Barkley would choose Donnell or Homer Ferguson. Said Ferguson indignantly: "I've been euchred out." Minority Leader Kenneth Wherry of Nebraska demanded: "Why are they doing this? Is this an investigation or a cover-up?"-and thought he knew the answers...
Then a very unsenatorial thing happened: the Senate chamber was still, and no one got up to speak. At his front-row desk, McCarran stared stonily at Vice President Alben Barkley in the chair. McCarran's strategy was to allow his opponents to use up all their allotted time, leaving him the last, unanswerable word. The leader of his opponents, West Virginia's chunky, Fair Dealing Harley Kilgore, as stubbornly clung to his allowance of 39 minutes to be used after McCarran. Barkley asked if McCarran wanted to use or to yield any of his time. No, said...
...looking more & more like a pretty shrewd politico. Up & down the San Joaquin Valley he was drawing crowds to the back platform of his shiny new trailer-bus. For his campaign manager Jimmy badly wanted George T. Davis, a smart San Francisco lawyer who had run the California Truman-Barkley clubs. Davis wanted to be sure that it was all right with Harry Truman at Key West. After sounding out the Administration's boys in the back room, Davis came back with a demand from the Truman advisers that Jimmy promise in writing that he would...
...Yale's Berkeley College champions at the Blockhouse Saturday at 3 p.m. The combination of big men who can move particularly forwards Fred Wagner, high-scorer John Pankey, and 6 foot, 6 inch center John Lombard--have carried Kirkland to 12 wins in 13 contests. The guards are George Barkley and playmaker Chan Cushman...
...Alben W. Barkley was busier than most brides. On a typical day she visited Capitol Hill to preside over a morning meeting of the Senate Ladies' Luncheon Club, lunched briefly with Mrs. Millard Tydings, wife of the Senator from Maryland, then dashed over to the Mayflower to meet Bess Truman at the launching of an annual money drive for the National Symphony Orchestra. It was the first public meeting between Mrs. Truman and Mrs. Barkley. Both smiled expertly for cameramen...