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Enthroned above all were the heads of the two Houses, President John Nance Garner of the Senate (looking more than usually owlish) and Speaker William Bankhead. Below them were ranged President Roosevelt, Senate Majority Leader Barkley, House Majority Leader Rayburn, and a tireless Representative from Manhattan for whom the sesquicentennial of the U. S. has been a three-year field day, Director Sol Bloom of the Joint Committee on Arrangements...
Maryland's debonair Democrat Tydings helped out Ohio's Taft by picturing the Gilbertsville dam as a flood-control project superimposed upon a power project, but Tennessee's McKellar, TVA's Nebraska father, Senator Norris, and Majority Leader Barkley were too much for them. By wide margins the Senate voted the money for Watts Bar and Gilbertsville...
...BARKLEY: I ask unanimous consent that . . . the Senate . . . stand in adjournment until Thursday next...
...once in sonorous harmony, the majority leader and presiding pundit of the U. S. Senate, Alben Barkley and John Nance Garner, last week continued to shush debate on U. S. foreign policy. When they began doing it two weeks ago G. O. P. Leader McNary winked, congratulated "Dear Alben" upon his adroitly prolonged adjournments, tipped off the fact that Republicans were no more anxious than Garner Democrats to step out against International Defense...
Senate Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley, D., Ky., said tonight that he expects to bring the measure to a vote within two or three days, depending upon the length of isolationist "oratory," but other estimates were that the debate might last the entire week if not longer...