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...Democratic victory, Speaker Sam Rayburn with a stanch defense of the Congress. Before week's end most of the party's bigwigs would be insisting that this is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party: Senate Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley in Illinois and Michigan, Senator Albert B. Chandler in Illinois, Senator Claude Pepper in California, Senator Robert F. Wagner in Rhode Island, Senator Lister Hill in New Jersey...
Senate Democratic leader Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky said consideration of the Senate bill, to be formally reported tomorrow, will be undertaken "at the earliest possible opportunity"--probably on Tuesday...
...Chicago's nickname, "Windy City." After weary days of debate, several hundred Senators and Representatives sweated to finish the measure. With speed that shamed the dilatory arguments in Congress, the President issued the necessary Executive Order establishing an Office of Economic Stabilization with Justice Byrnes as its Director. Senator Barkley immediately said that Congress had done "a marvelous...
After Prentiss Brown's performance, Majority Leader Alben Barkley of Kentucky recessed the Senate, coolly calculating that public and private pressures would make themselves felt over the weekend. By Monday morning the farm bloc was scrabbling around for a compromise. Brown stood firm. Barkley let the debate drag. The lobbyists met that night-this time with a smaller bloc of the faithful. The Administration now had the votes. The immediate peril was over...
...State administrators turned out to be strangely nonpolitical, in many cases not even good New Deal Democrats. There was one notable exception: in Kentucky, after a stubborn fight with non-politics-minded OPA, the job went to WPAdministrator George H. Goodman, whose WPA campaigned mightily for Senator Alben Barkley...