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...introduced last January, was never much more than a high-sounding Government promise to try to keep everybody working. As passed (71-10) last week by the Senate, its remains were called by one cynical legislator "a damned good New Year's resolution." Disappointed Senate Majority Leader Barkley, who had seen another of Harry Truman's "musts" amended beyond recognition, snapped, "It now guarantees everybody out of work the right to seek a job-if he can find...
...Roosevelt's and Harry Truman's administrations. Federal outgo and income had not matched since June 1930, just after the beginning of the last great depression, and the national debt now stood at $26.2 billion. But when the Taft amendment was put before the Senate, "Dear Alben" Barkley spoke only a few mild-mannered words of protest. Then Georgia's economy-minded George rose to thunder...
...this situation there was only one thing for the Army to do. Sad-eyed General George Catlett Marshall, chief of staff, stepped up to explain. At the Library of Congress he faced 350 members of Congress, half a hundred G.I.s and WACs whom Alben Barkley, Senate majority leader, had told to come...
...jump ahead of the Republicans, Majority Leader Alben Barkley rose in the Senate to call for a joint committee of five Senators and five Representatives to search into the "cold, unvarnished, indisputable facts." No favoritism should be shown, he warned. Nor should the investigation be carried out with "the purpose of gratifying the misanthropic hatreds of any person toward any present or past public servant, high or low, living or dead...
...Senate, knowing full well that the public servant Barkley had in mind was the man notably unnamed in the Army & Navy reports-Franklin D. Roosevelt-adopted Barkley's resolution without dissent...