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Soon after he became majority leader of the Senate in 1937, Alben Barkley fell asleep at the political switch. He allowed the antilynching bill to be brought up for discussion and got his party in a jam in the closing hours of the session. Last week he nodded again-with less serious consequences...
Last week came I. P. U. election day. Fleshy, easygoing Senator Barkley of Kentucky prepared to settle the little matter in the privacy of his Library Committee Room. To his surprise, crowds of Congressmen flocked in. He hastily moved the meeting to a larger room, and then discovered what was happening: Republicans in Congress (193 this year compared to 106 last year) had decided to make it a social occasion. Under the leadership of New York's heavy-humored Representative "Ham" Fish and Missouri's bucolic Representative Dewey Short, they voted ten-to-one that Ham Fish...
...Leader Barkley started counting the votes, saw what was happening, flushed, groped for words, Conceded the election, tried to laugh...
...fortify his control over the Senate, Majority Leader Barkley got three more New Dealers (Bankhead, Minton, Green) appointed to the Steering Committee, two more (Schwartz, Smathers) appointed to the Policy Committee...
...organizing the Senate the Administration might have had trouble this year for in the new Senate "moderate" (economy-minded) Democrats outnumber New Dealers. For this reason Mississippi's Pat Harrison might have ousted Kentucky's Barkley, the Majority Leader who beat him out by one vote in 1937 with Franklin Roosevelt's aid. Instead, Senator Harrison chose last week not to run for Leader this year: he did not want the job of spokesman for the Administration. "Dear Alben" was re-elected by acclamation and Illinois' elegant, whiskery old James Hamilton ("J. Ham") Lewis was persuaded...