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...Plan jumped jubilantly into the fight against it. First test of their strength was an amendment proposed by Massachusetts' David Walsh to leave the civil service administration under a three-man commission. It was defeated, but by such a narrow margin-50-to-38-that Floor Leader Alben Barkley promptly betrayed the fact that his alarm outweighed his satisfaction by leaving himself appallingly wide open to a rude jibe from Idaho's Borah. To Mr. Borah's suggestion that the President favored shifting the Forest Service from the Agriculture to the Interior Department, perturbed Leader Barkley indignantly...
...Senator Barkley: This is not an autobiography, I hope...
...Truth Party."' When Majority Leaders Barkley and Rayburn told Franklin Roosevelt that the situation was likely to get out of their hands, the President stepped confidently in, summoned all the directors to explain their charges to him at the White House. Up to this point Washington had proceeded on the assumption that the TVA squabble was full of political dynamite. But Franklin Roosevelt in the past has seen plenty of such dynamite turn out to be a squib, and he knew the three TVA directors better than anyone else in Washington. And Franklin Roosevelt is a political showman without...
...Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 and the law of the land. This week, after three days of debate divided between assertions by various Senators .that they did not understand what they were voting for and contrary assertions that the bill had to be passed anyway, Majority Leader Barkley managed a roll call, got the bill passed...
...Successor to the late Joseph Robinson as Senate majority leader is (1 Samuel H. Reyburn, 2 Henrik Shipstead, 3 Bertrand H. Snell, 4 Robert M. La Follette Jr. 5 Alben W Barkley...