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...with the House) a better show at the National Press Club than at the Capitol. Kentucky's Alben Barkley. whose forte is singing Wagon Wheels, sang it solo for the guests at a Congressional beefsteak dinner; also sang a duet with his onetime foe, Kentucky's junior Senator "Happy" Chandler...
...Democrat, many Democratic Western Senators rejected the principle, on the theory that the import of $4,411,853 worth of Argentine canned meats is injurious to the $1,144,000,000 U. S. cattle industry. In this emergency, the Administration feared to trust wholly to Kentucky's Alben Barkley, Senate leader. Afraid that "Peerless Leader'' Barkley might lose votes and alienate people, the White House called in Mississippi's "Grey Fox," Pat Harrison, begged him to get busy...
...tougher (TIME, March 18). Rallied behind Gospeleer Hatch were Mahout Charles McNary of Oregon and his 22 Republican elephants, all of them acting like poker-faced converts, but none of whom had ever before shown any absorbing interest in pure politics. At his shoulder were Kentucky's Alben Barkley and Happy Chandler, whose desperately dirty 1938 campaign had roused public support to Hatch Bill I. Then Senate Leader Barkley had used WPA to counteract Governor Chandler's Highways Department payrollers. Now both had seen the light. Said Happy to Alben: "I'm for this bill. I wouldn...
...Amended the Barkley stream-pollution bill to put "teeth" in pollution-prevention measures by authorizing court-proceedings against violators as public nuisances...
...billion dollars' worth of securities not listed on these exchanges, watches their brokers regulate themselves. Under the Chandler Act (1938) it has loud kibitzing powers over corporate reorganizations, has watched the progress of 548 companies with pre-bankruptcy assets of $640,200,000 through the courts. Under the Barkley Act (1939) it must approve trust indentures. Under the Public Utilities Holding Company Act (1935) it has the broadest, toughest job of all: authority over the affairs of about half the U. S. power industry, the half (gross assets: $15,000,000,000 plus) that belongs to the great interstate...