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...weary figure of the Senate majority leader reflected both the dignity and pathos of a faithful St. Bernard Plodding doggedly through all-day conferences in his Capitol office, Alben Barkley rescued what he could...
...avalanche that had fallen upon price controls was only one more in a series of Administration disasters in the current Congress. Through every storm Alben Barkley had been plunged into the heroic task of guiding colleagues no longer inclined to be led. Last week he continued the relentless watch he had stood over the British loan, Selective Service, the atomic-energy bill and a host of favored Administration causes...
Inside his high-ceilinged office a gilt clock ticked off the minutes through five long days. OPA conferees haggled across the flat-topped table, flopped in the black leather chairs, shuffled over to the water cooler, loaded ashtrays with mountains of smoldering cigaret butts. Alben Barkley, squinting through the humid haze scribbled down the endless formulae of possible compromise. Around the corner, in the office of Senate Secretary Les Biffle,' OPAdministrator Paul Porter waited...
...Administration's strategist, Majority Leader Alben Barkley, quickly sensed the sentiment. In four days of adroit maneuvering, he got approval (by the Senate Banking Committee) of a new OPA formula. Out the window went a compromise Bob Taft thought he had arranged. This week the Senate's battle of price control started all over again. U.S. citizens watched it anxiously. There was a strong move to take all controls off meat, poultry and dairy products. Only on rent controls did nearly everyone seem agreed, whatever bill Congress passed, it was all but certain that there would be ceilings...
...Senate forces of Barkley and Taft prepared yesterday to tear up the battleground of price control, the nine-man Harvard Committee to Save O.P.A. set the hour of noon tomorrow as the time for students in the University to put themselves on record in favor of effective price ceilings...