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...rally, which is slated to support the Truman-Barkley ticket, includes as speakers Senator Brian McMahon (D., Conn.), Mrs. Borden Harriman, former minister to Norway, and Bartley Crum, editor of the New York Star...
With no drums and tramplings, Kentucky's Senator Alben Barkley hit the road. Accompanied by only two aides, the 70-year-old Democratic candidate for Vice President made little leaps around the East by airline, train, and rented car. His knee was stiff and he was suffering from a cold (which he doctored with drugstore pills), but he kept...
...nothing" record of the Both Congress, the gains of labor and agriculture during 16 years of Democratic Administration. At Georgetown, Del., he reminded some 300 farmers that the county's farm income had gone from $4,000,000 in 1932 to $85 million last year. Roared Barkley: "I don't claim it was all due to the Democratic Administration but it certainly wasn't due to the Republicans...
...never says die, had roared out of Washington promising to "give 'em hell," and promptly proceeded to do so in one of the most inflammatory speeches he had delivered to date. Before the week was out, the September campaign circuits would be jammed with the trails of Alben Barkley, Henry Wallace, and the Dixiecrats' J. Strom Thurmond. The nation's cartoonists were already hard at work. Before Nov. 2, the air would be crisscrossed with brickbats, insults and loud appeals to party spirit...
...Alben Barkley saw Harry Truman off at the station. "Mow 'em down, Harry," Alben advised. "I'm going to fight hard. I'm going to give them hell," promised the President. "You ought not to say 'hell,' " daughter Margaret admonished her father. Senator Barkley suggested: "It is going to be a victorious trip." Said Harry Truman briskly: "Yes, sir. It is going...