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...Kentucky, where Negroes used to be traded by Republican bosses but stayed out of the Democratic primary, Senator ''Dear Alben" Barkley and Governor "Happy" Chandler bid for the Negro vote this year. Dear Alben more successfully. Happy called old Negroes "Uncle" but Dear Alben had a stranglehold on the WPA rolls...
Month ago, after sending agents into Kentucky to explore alleged WPA activities in behalf of Senator "Dear Alben" Barkley's renomination, the Senate Campaign Investigating Committee handed a bill of particulars to WPAdministrator Harry Hopkins and asked him: What about it? Last week, having had no reply from Mr. Hopkins, Chairman Sheppard of the committee prodded Mr. Hopkins with another letter. This time he used strong phrases-"flagrantly violated," "criminal statutes." The committee declared that its evidence, supported by more than 100 affidavits, showed that...
...WPAsters in Kentucky's 32 western counties had been carefully listed so as to show the names and addresses of all legal voters in their families. This work was done by WPA workers on WPA time but on stationery supplied by Senator Barkley's headquarters. The lists were handed to Mr. Barkley's campaign managers in the 32 counties. Later most of the lists were burned...
...cousin), Tammany's O'Connor has been only an off & on New Dealer. He has been off more than on since the White House helped Texas' Sam Rayburn beat him for the House Leadership, a situation not unlike that created when the President pushed "Dear Alben" Barkley into the Senate leadership ahead of Mississippi's Pat Harrison...
...Houston last weekend toward his "humiture"-ridden, politically fermenting country, he could have added up his political score, based on the week's primary elections in six States, about as follows: Kentucky-an all-important, extremely satisfying New Deal touchdown in the renomination of Majority Leader "Dear Alben" Barkley for the Senate...