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Will the Senator Yield? This was the signal for Administration stalwarts. Majority Leader Alben Barkley inquired innocently: "How does the Senator know that of his own knowledge...
...Senate usually waits a day after committee action on nominations. But just a few hours later Stettinius was confirmed as Under Secretary of State, without a dissenting vote. Up rose Democratic Leader Alben W. Barkley in fulsome eulogy. Immediately Arthur Vandenberg, powerful Republican member of the Foreign Relations Committee, was on his feet to say that the Republicans agreed...
Senator Alben Barldey of Kentucky clutched convulsively at his pride and howled in pain when he learned that Montana's Burton K. Wheeler had contended that Kentucky has a desert training center. "A desert in country like Kentucky!" Barkley cried. "Why, there is more sand and scrub in the City Park in Butte . . . than there is in the whole of the old Kentucky home." He found a transcript of the Montanan's remarks, fell to studying, presently announced that Wheeler must have had Fort Knox's cookery school in mind and meant to say "dessert...
...tougher going in November. His competition will be grey-haired Republican Simeon S. Willis, 63, a corporation lawyer and former judge. Republicans are hopeful that Kentucky is going G.O.P., that Willis will become the State's first Republican Governor since 1931. They are planning now to thrash Alben Barkley, the Senate's Majority Leader, next year. Even friends agree that White House Wheelhorse Barkley has jeopardized his narrow hold in Keutucky by blindly supporting unpopular administration proposals: the lid on farm prices, the fight against antistrike legislation...
Robert Gray Axtell (Economics), Robert Heywood Hoskins (Mathematics), George Barkley Hutchison, Jr. (Mathematics), Stanley Martin Jacks (Economics), Perry Deyo Le Fevre (History), Francis Joseph O'Connor (Romance Languages and Literatures), Dick S Payne (Government), Joseph Abraham Zilber (Mathematics...