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...against management than labor). Florida's Spessard Holland wanted an amendment to do just the opposite and permit injunctions, but bar seizures. One after another, ideas were passionately debated, defeated by Taft's phalanx of Republicans and Southern Democrats. The fight was so close that Vice President Barkley flew back from the West Coast to be on hand to break...
...Perle Mesta's place. From her luxurious mansion on Foxhall Road, Mrs. Cafritz issued invitations to a mint julep and steak party this week at the Cafritz estate. The guest list, if all showed up, was almost as impressive as a Mesta fiesta. Among those invited: Vice President Barkley, the John Snyders, the Clark Cliffords, Generals Omar Bradley and Hoyt Vandenberg, a hatful of ambassadors and Cabinet members, and General Dwight D. Eisenhower...
...evokes a picture of the countryside with the sureness of Elizabeth Madox Roberts. There is no question of her success in picturing the profane and pious old people, the backwoodsmen with fine old names like Ballew and Hull, the proud parents who gave their children names like Alben W. Barkley Tiller, the farmers working on the WPA or in the automobile factories of Detroit...
...Vice President Barkley added a new word to the language when he told reporters that his family called...
Welburn Mayock, a down-to-earth, oil-rich Los Angeles lawyer who ran the Truman-Barkley clubs and was general counsel to the National Committee. He gave $4,500. A longtime friend of and attorney for Ed Pauley, Mayock helped scotch Henry Wallace's candidacy at the 1944 convention, served as assistant to then-treasurer Pauley. The President, like most of his friends, calls him "Judge," but it is a misnomer. "I never claimed it wasn't," Mayock explains, "but I got tired of explaining it was a phony myself." He maintains law offices in Washington...