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...unruffled. He greeted more acquaintances, had a friendly chat with Ohio's Senator Robert A. Taft, and sampled a little bourbon & branch water. Then he headed for the office of Vice President Alben Barkley (who was traveling in the South), sat down at Barkley's desk and scribbled a note...
Ernest Reuter, the Lord Mayor of blockaded Berlin, came to Washington to attend the U.S. Conference of Mayors and was cordially greeted by Vice President Alben Barkley. Britain's wartime Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, stepped ashore from the Cunard liner Queen Elizabeth, looking pale and tired but still smoking a big cigar, and still eyeing the world with lively attention. He was picketed by left-wingers in Manhattan, but to most U.S. citizens he was still a brave and oaklike figure-the man who, in Fulton, Mo. on his last visit to the U.S., had called-dramatic attention...
...Rail. At last, Majority Leader Scott Lucas decided to put a stop to all the talk. He presented a petition to end the debate by invoking cloture. It became Vice President Barkley's duty to rule on whether cloture could indeed be applied and the filibuster shut off at this point...
Ensconced in the high-backed chair on the dais, blinking down on excited Senators, Barkley remarked: "I feel like the man who was being ridden out of town on a rail. Someone asked him how he felt. He said if it weren't for the honor of the thing, he'd just as soon walk." He applied himself then to the South's ingenious entanglement, which was hard going even for sea lawyers...
...Senator Vandenberg has clouded the argument by his appeal for cricket. When the rule was adopted in 1917, its purpose was to allow two-thirds of the Senate to prevent a filibuster; the fact that later on the Dixiecrats joyfully discovered a loephole is unfortunate, yet Barkley's effort to plug that loophole seems in no way a breach of ethics...