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Starters: 1) Senator Alben William ("Dear Alben") Barkley, 61; 2) Governor Albert Benjamin ("Happy") Chandler...
...broad bosom of the Pacific Ocean enfolded Franklin Roosevelt last weekend. To its gusts he could throw the heavy cares of the Presidency, to its rollers the carking complications of politics. Behind for a while lay the names of Barkley, Thomas, Adams, McCarran, McAdoo. Ahead lay marlin, sailfish, tuna, albacore, and the wild wahoo. His secretaries put away a sheaf of delivered speeches. His fishing aides aboard the cruiser Houston unpacked a trunkful of rods, reels and tackle. Instead of shining paragraphs for the electorate, now there would be shining spoons, dancing feathers for big fish. While Harry Hopkins administered...
Efforts to end this stalemate reached a peak last month just before Congress passed the Lend-Spend bill. A provision in this bill forbidding PWA to build any more power plants in competition with private companies was removed by White House request, but Senate Majority Leader Barkley announced that "the President does not contemplate" any further such competition "unless and until such municipality as may apply for such allocation has in good faith made an offer to purchase the existing private plant...
...Kentucky, no orders from Mr. Hopkins were needed to make Mr. Goodman help Senator Barkley, to whom Mr. Goodman owes his job. It is even demonstrable that Mr. Hopkins, if he wanted to, could not stop Mr. Goodman from helping Mr. Barkley...
...learn a lot at the knees of Franklin Roosevelt and Jim Farley. Evidence of his political maturity was that he did not stand in the way of special WPA pay raises so opportunely given in Kentucky and Oklahoma last month. In these two States the primary opponents of Senators Barkley and Elmer Thomas had pointed at local WPA wages lower than those paid in neighboring States, shaming these two Roosevelt favorites for not doing better by the home folks...