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Paducah, Ky. is the home town not only of Funnyman Irvin S. Cobb but of ("Dear") Alben Barkley. leader of the New Deal majority in the Senate. Since Governor Albert B. ("Happy") Chandler is hot after Mr. Barkley's seat,*Paducah will be Franklin Roosevelt's most Important political stop, on July 9. Next on his visiting list will come Oklahoma, where faithful Senator Elmer Thomas is up for reelection, next, his son Elliott in Fort Worth, Texas...
...battle Senator Barkley last week solemnly became a Moose (Governor Chandler is a Shriner...
...House thought $3,154,425,000 would be enough money to fight Depression II by Federal lending & spending. Last week the Senate in its wisdom, after being whipped through several night sessions by Majority Leader Barkley. who wanted this session of Congress to end some day, made an end of arguing. By 60-to-10 it passed a bill 1) rating Depression II as a $3,722,905,000 affair-$568,480,000 bigger than the House thought- 2) giving Franklin Roosevelt almost as free a hand in spending the money as he had asked...
Once called a "pump-priming" measure, the bill had been given the horrid name of a "poll-priming'' device, because of WTAdministrator Harry Hopkins' pointed comment on the Iowa primary election (see p. 16). Leader Barkley admitting Mr. Hopkins had been indiscreet, nevertheless marshaled his Administration cohorts to defeat every effort to attach penalties, however light, to political use of relief billions. New Mexico's Hatch, a Democrat, and Vermont's Austin, a Republican, each tried to prohibit WPA administrative employes from taking active part in elections. Each was voted down by a close margin...
...Mexico's Chavez stated the case with devastating simplicity: "As a practical proposal, shall we tie the hands of the Senator from Kentucky [Barkley] or any other Senator just because he happened to have recommended to WPA some honest Democratic friend who could do the job? Shall we prevent that friend from giving the Senator a lift when he needs...