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Dully inept was the Congressional defense of conscription. Majority Leader Alben Barkley in the Senate trusted Wheeler, Vandenberg & Co. to wear themselves out with words, the Gallup Poll (71% favored draft for ages 18-32) to offset a continuing flood of anti-conscription mail. Accepting an amendment to up Army pay, "Dear Alben" muffed a cogent argument for compulsory service: that the alleged necessity for the increase augured ill for the Army's chances to get swarms of volunteers. No voice raised in Congress for conscription had the sting and vim which some anonymous satirist achieved last week...
...Kansas City's Boss Pendergast. It was evident that Bennett Clark did not enjoy backing Truman so much as he loved clapperclawing Truman's rival-stiff, Roman-nosed Governor Lloyd Crow Stark. Also to the aid of New Dealer Truman went New Deal Wheelhorse Alben Barkley. At a St. Louis campaign rally attended by 300 party hacks and laborites, he conferred the Roosevelt blessing on Candidate Truman. But Alben Barkley was not happy to find himself in the same camp with Champ Clark. They are bitter enemies, for Clark, a shrewd parliamentarian, has consistently made the clumsy majority...
...Garner demonstration went doggedly around the hall once to the tune of The Eyes of Texas Are Upon You. Then bumblemaster Barkley announced portentously: "The roll call is concluded. The clerk will now call the roll...
...Alben Barkley's dull roar died away. In its stead, for a long moment during the Democratic Convention last week, there was only the manifold murmur of the crowd in the Chicago Stadium. The sweating, shuffling, staring thousands had just heard Franklin Roosevelt's inconclusive message that he could be had (see p. 9), wondered what would happen next. Suddenly the loudspeakers clustered above the delegates came alive. A voice thundered...
...Voice which thus lifted delegates and spectators from apathy into their first big, draft-Roosevelt demonstration belonged neither to Alben Barkley, to the People, nor to God. Politically it belonged to Chicago Bosses Ed Kelly and Pat Nash: technically, to their Superintendent of Sewers Thomas D. ("for Democrat") Garry...