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...President whenever he wants, through the White House back door. Hannegan then devoted two-thirds of his speech to an assault on New York's Governor Thomas Dewey ("who copies down the answers on his little slate after the examination is all over"). In Collier's, Alben Barkley, sublimely oblivious of his dramatic break with the President, used 3,000 words to say why he, too, is for Term...
...Moore, who used to be a Democrat until he sickened of the New Deal. Cried he: "I hate and detest the New Deal with all my soul. It is a destructive vice in America. I want it eradicated completely." Replied big-gun Democrat, Kentucky's Alben Barkley: "I just asked them what part of the New Deal they would vote against . . . social security, the wage-hour act, bank insurance, soil conservation and all the rest...
...When Hopkins finally pulled through, no one was certain which drug-if any-had turned the trick. (That was WPA's toughest year, when Scripps-Howard Reporter Tom Stokes won a Pulitzer prize for exposing the use of the relief vote in re-electing Kentucky's Alben Barkley...
Democrats, who have lost all but one of the past eight Congressional by-elections, were taking care not to lose the next one. They were rushing one of their top-drawer attractions, Senate Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley, off to the Oklahoma hills to help swing next week's Second Congressional District election their way. Normally this would be considered sending...
...veteran and past American Legion state commander. Democrat Stigler and Republican Clark are the rival attorneys of the town of Stigler (pop. 1,572), named for the Democrat's family. Dopesters are backing Stigler to win, but the Democrats who sent the hurry call for Alben Barkley were in no mood to trust to form...