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...hotels, Democrats tried hard to whip themselves into a festive spirit. There was terrapin soup, breast of capon, and plenty of champagne. (The Statler served a dessert called "bombe atomic.") At the Statler, preliminary speakers included Sam Rayburn, Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas in a fetching white dress, and Alben Barkley. At the Mayflower, there were Fannie Perkins in a beaded dress, The Bronx Boss Ed Flynn -who almost forgot to stand up during the playing of the Sidewalks of New York -and Jim Farley, who got the biggest hand of all when he said he was glad to be there...
...empowered the Administration to limit the use of grain in distilling. It ignored all of President Truman's requests for such heavy weapons as rationing, wage and price controls, compulsory allocations. Allocations could be made only through "voluntary" agreements with industry. This meant, cried Minority Leader Alben Barkley, that the President would have "to go out huckstering among business" to get agreements...
...Barkley's amendment authorizing compulsory allocations was beaten down...
With unaccustomed patience, Bob Taft waited out two days of Democratic infighting. In the end, even many Democrats approved the bill, which was sent to the House, by a 77-to-10 vote. House Democrats took another futile try at the Barkley amendment. Finally, 102 of them (and New York's Party-line Vito Marcantonio) lined up with 178 Republicans to pass the bill. Triumphantly, Bob Taft declared: "The President has power today to check nearly all of the principal causes of inflation if he really wishes to do so." This was taken by most Washingtonians in the partisan...
...Dawson Springs, Ky., Senator Alben W. Barkley very nearly missed reaching his 70th birthday next fortnight: the auto he was riding in was struck by another on a bridge. The other plunged 35 feet, injuring the driver's head; Barkley's car stayed aloft, with the Senator inside, uninjured but shaken...