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...convention proper opened, the assembled Democrats seemed really intent on only one thing-getting it over with. They were not stirred by old Senator Alben Barkley's keynote address...
...Mont, will again offer sidelights, speculation, scorekeeping, interviews and convention color; the TV stations will again pool resources for maximum coverage of doings on the floor of Convention Hall. The sideshows will get under way on Thursday, the main event on Monday evening, with Senator Barkley's keynote address...
...year-old Moral Re-Armament movement, and it clicked smoothly along in the well-oiled M.R.A. manner. Statesmen and ex-statesmen from 25 nations (including Italy, Germany and Japan) were there. The cablegram that invited them had been signed by some 51 Congressmen from 40 states (including Senators Barkley, Brewster and Bridges). On the local invitation committee were California's Governor Warren, Los Angeles' Mayor Fletcher Bowron, the University of California's President Robert Sproul, Hollywood's Jimmy Stewart and Joel McCrea. ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman sent warm greetings: "You are giving to the world the ideological...
Harry Truman's nomination for the presidency was apparently in the bag. Last week Frank Hague's New Jersey Democrats pledged their "militant support" of him; Kentucky's Senator Alben Barkley flatly predicted that he would be nominated and elected...
Turkey & Potions. But work done did not interfere with political jockeying. Democrats who had begun to sidle away from the President's stand against tax reduction broke into an undignified jog. Minority Leader Alben Barkley let it be known that a $4 billion cut might be acceptable. Les Biffle, Harry Truman's eyes & ears in Congress, departed to talk turkey with Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder, who was vacationing in Florida...