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...Nearing Florida, the Houston's radio picked up a welcome message from Kentucky's Senator "Dear Alben" Barkley: "Looks like my majority will be between 60,000 & 70,000 votes...
...from the Federal Government for a set of balanced budget books down in Washington, then vote for Happy Chandler. But if you want 10 keep on getting what you're getting, and get some more, too, then vote to keep me in the Senate." -Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley at Lowes Crossroads...
While Chandler partisans believed and shuddered, Barkley partisans disbelieved and smirked. Non-Chandler doctors pooh-poohed the poison story. Waiter Berry insisted he had filled the pitcher from the hotel's regular water supply, that no one came near him in the elevator or corridors as he took the pitcher to the Governor's room. Louisville police ridiculed it all. An "ice water guard and food inspector" was appointed to "protect" Senator Barkley. At a big Barkley rally last Week in Louisville, a monster pitcher of ice water was placed on the speaker's table. Interrupting...
Kentucky, where the Committee told Senator Barkley to hurry up and send back his campaign expenditures questionnaire. A Committee investigator was sent back to look further into charges of WPA support for Mr. Barkley and also into the operation of Governor Chandler's State machine. Mr. Chandler (see p.11) frankly admitted to the Committee that State employes had been chosen chiefly from among his friends. But the Committee's biggest news was Tennessee. Upon scanning an investigator's report on that State, the Committee quickly sent him-and six more men-back for further details. While Senator...
...Senator Barkley of Kentucky: "I key-noted Roosevelt into the White House in 1932 and 1936, and I might possibly do it again...