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...Congress were snarling at each other; the gap between them was greater than ever. New Hampshire's Senator Charles Tobey angrily exhibited a peculiar example of Presidential rancor (see The Congress). At memorial services for Franklin Roosevelt in the House chamber this week, Senate Majority Leader Alben Barkley, ruffled as a wet hen over Harry Truman's rejection of his advice on the OPA bill, stiffly snubbed the President's overture of friendship. For Harry Truman's pat on his arm, the Kentucky Senator had only a formal...
Then loyal Majority Leader Alben Barkley got busy. He tried to avoid the issue, but his move to recommit the bill to committee for "further study" was beaten. The Senate was ready to argue the bill on its merits. And when it came to merits, the proposal to draft strikers into the Army was soundly beaten, 70-to-13. Senator Taft's first lone cry had grown to a chorus...
Stalling Action. It was clear now that every section of the emergency measure was in for rough treatment. Democrats scurried again to recommit the bill, lost again by 40-to-42. Then Alben Barkley showed that the White House itself was squirming to get off the hook. He offered amendments that filed down the bill's sharp teeth in almost every section. He fought hard against others that would have put some teeth back in. The Senate scrambled Party lines, produced curious alliances and strange turnabouts. At one point Alben Barkley remarked: "To see the Senator from Florida [Pepper...
...draft act was within six days of expiring when Majority Leader Barkley rose in the indifferent Senate to make a point: the seizure section of the Smith-Connally anti-strike law, being an amendment to the draft act, would die too, and with it the President's power to seize the coal mines...
...Senate got an ultimatum. It had dawdled so long over the British loan (TIME, May 6) that one day last week Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley lurched angrily from his front-row seat and, with ill-concealed irritation, served notice that he would resist "with all the powers at my command" any attempt to sidetrack the loan bill for anything else, not even the draft law, which is due to expire...