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After a dry-as-dust opening barrage by Majority Leader Alban Barkley, the high chamber floundered bravely for a while in a dismal sea of statistics. When North Dakota's Langer took the floor next day for the opposition, the senatorial audience dropped to a single listener. The Senators discussed wheat prices in Kansas, the profits of Henry J. Kaiser, the sex life of Government employes and, when time hung heavy, the loan...
...committee, ready to send the loan to the Senate floor, asked no questions. Said Chairman Alben W. Barkley: "Thank you, Mr. Fish. Your statement will be considered by the committee, when it gets around to it." That might be a long time...
...bigwigs (Secretary of Commerce Henry Wallace, Senator Alben Barkley, Mayor O'Dwyer), innocently anxious to sponsor any benevolent-sounding cause, and ignoring the timing of the new campaign, endorsed Birobidjan...
...London Daily Express' visiting correspondent, William Barkley, a newcomer to the U.S. scene, shuddered publicly after his first look...
Cried Kentucky's 58-year-old Senator Alben Barkley: "That does not annoy me in the slightest. . . . Mr. Walker is by no means a doddering...