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...Vice Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, which gratefully accepted $270,000 from C.I.O.'s cornerstone, the United Mine Workers of America, for its 1936 campaign. Alert C.I.O. Lawyer Morris Ernst asked Vice Chairman Hague if he would repudiate, for example, the C.I.O. supporters of Democratic Senator Alben Barkley in Kentucky, of Democratic Governor Frank Murphy of Michigan...
...roads reporting a $28,000,000 loss in March against a $24,000,000 net income in March 1937, Franklin Roosevelt tried to spur Congress to pass some of the proposals which have languished there for two months. But this week, after a conference with Senate Majority Leader Barkley, it was admitted that the roads would have to remain in the ditch until Congress meets again next January...
...Senator Barkley was more subtle. Said he: "I have not yet reached the conclusion that all political virtue is sealed up within these four walls; and I have not reached the conclusion that a United States Senator has any more right than the humblest man or woman in the United States to express his views on anything on which he entertains views...
...when Leader Barkley proposed that all the $1,425,000,000 provided to make WPA jobs be made available to the President for direct relief, the Senate balked. It raised the direct relief appropriation from $50,000.000 to $125,000,000, but no more. The bill, as the Senate finished it, provided
...whatever utility recapitalizations may soon be necessary to release $432,000,000 in accumulated unpaid preferred dividends. Finally, though the Senate took Franklin Roosevelt's advice and voted down the suggestion that PWA be prohibited from further building of power plants in competition with private industry, Senator Alben Barkley specifically promised 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...