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...prediction," said relieved Leader Barkley, "is an adjournment by June...
Last February, when Speaker Bankhead and Senate Majority Leader Barkley were insisting that Congress would adjourn by May 15, Nathan W. Robertson, Senate reporter for Associated Press, asked Mr. Garner for his views...
While other Senators joined the hue & cry. Majority Leader Barkley got in touch with Harry Hopkins. That very day the campaign manager of Governor "Happy" Chandler of Kentucky (a candidate this year for Barkley's Senate seat) had published a letter to President Roosevelt in which he charged, with affidavits to match, that WPA jobs in Kentucky were only for Barkley voters. Said Mr. Barkley, specially anxious to quell the storm of poll-priming indignation...
...Kentucky Senate Majority Leader Alben Barkley's campaign for re-election against ambitious Governor "Happy" Chandler-it began last January with a testimonial banquet at which his supporters read a forthright letter of endorsement from the President-was proceeding with active White House support. It was indicated that the President himself might make a Barkley speech in Kentucky after attending the 75th anniversary celebration of the Battle of Gettysburg...
...last week Franklin Roosevelt issued a call to his first-line spending lieutenants: Senate Majority Leader Alben Barkley and House Leader Sam Rayburn, fresh from his humiliation over the failure of the Reorganization Bill, Works Progress Administrator Harry Hopkins, Acting Budget Director Daniel W. Bell, Chairman Carter Glass of the Senate Appropriations Committee and Chairman Edward T. Taylor of the House Appropriations Committee. These met for a White House conference this week. Meantime, Congressional spadework and broad hints by the President in his press conferences and elsewhere during the week had roughed in the three sums to be provided...