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...speeches went quickly, mostly the dutiful words of politicians, some old-fashioned quavering oratory by Huey's friends, through which signs of genuine emotion showed faintly. Old Senator Norris brooded sadly and in silence. Bumbling Alben Barkley talked on & on about other things, until it seemed he was not going to mention Huey at all, finally got around to Huey's courage and prowess in debate, ended with a roar: "Friend and foe alike denounced the way he was taken away!" It was a painful show. The backwoods followers of the Kingfish who still loved him could find...
...proof": two letters from unnamed persons-one a relative of a boy allegedly in the Navy who had said he had been on convoy duty, another a man who said he knew of a young girl whose fiance had told her he was leaving on convoy duty. Senator Barkley said with measured deliberation that Navy Secretary Frank Knox and Admiral Harold R. Stark had authorized him to say that "not a single ship, American or foreign, carrying any war materials from any place to any other place, had been convoyed or was being convoyed from any place to any other...
With the one possibly dangerous amendment broken, with Barkley at last steeled to hold an early-&-late session, the opposition quickly collapsed. Twenty-one amendments were slapped down; eleven minor modifications were accepted. Only one of these was possibly important: an amendment by Virginia's apple-cheeked, apple-growing Harry Byrd, to require the President to get a specific Congressional authorization before disposing of defense articles produced out of new appropriations. The Senate passed the bill...
...early this week the bill had not even reached amendment stage. Leader Barkley bumbled about longer hours, which he hates, since as Leader he would have to sit longer than any of the others, had his bluff swiftly called. A Gallup poll showed U. S. sentiment for the bill down three points, though still 55% in favor. A disgusted Senator grumbled privately: "Wheeler's doing all right. He talked long enough to let Hitler take another country. If he can keep it up we won't need the bill anyway. It will be too late." The Senate talked...
Nevertheless, Nevada's Pat McCarran, author of the old CAA act, trumpeted on the floor of the Senate: "This legalized murder should stop." He sat tousle-headed and glaring while bumbling Alben Barkley tried to defend Franklin Roosevelt's reorganization of CAA which abolished the crack, independent Air Safety Board. A Senate subcommittee will investigate the Atlanta crash. And when Pat McCarran's bill to set aside Franklin Roosevelt's reorganization comes to hearing, there will be plenty of fireworks...