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...Majority Leader Alben Barkley the filibuster was not the most serious Southern reaction to his allowing an anti-lynching bill to reach the Senate floor. Because he faces a Senatorial primary in Kentucky next August he left Washington and the filibuster to attend a testimonial banquet in his honor at Louisville's Brown Hotel. Governor A. B. ("Happy'') Chandler, who was put into office with Alben Barkley's help, declined to attend. Instead popular "Happy"' Chandler was given a luncheon the same day, at which he announced his willingness to serve Kentucky "in any other...
Speaking in academic cap & gown to students of Washington's Peirce School, U. S. Senate Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley declared the U. S. has "more representation and more taxation than the forefathers ever dreamed...
When the special session opened last November with no Farm Bill in sight, Alben Barkley, like a Confederate general trapped into acting as a front for a group of carpetbaggers, unhappily unloosed the Wagner-Van Nuys Bill and its inevitable filibuster. It was temporarily laid aside when the Farm Bill appeared, but nothing is more important to a legislative leader than to keep his promises to the letter. So no sooner was the President's message out of the way last fortnight than Alben Barkley, still smarting from the abuses of the last filibuster, fulfilled his pledge, produced the Anti...
...thirds required to invoke cloture and end the filibuster, but the filibuster nevertheless went on. Alert Walter White made increasingly anxious trips downstairs to confer with Senators in the reception room. One of his departures from the gallery was noted by Jimmy Byrnes with sotto voce sarcasm: "Barkley can't do anything without talking to that nigger first...
...White-Wagner-Van Nuys Anti-Lynching Bill decreased steadily last week, for time works with a filibuster. One serious blow was the refusal of Republican Leader Charles McNary, a master of minority strategy, to vote for night sessions or cloture so long as he could hamstring the Barkley leadership by refusing to do so. Another blow was the warning by oldtime Liberal George Norris that a prolonged, bitter filibuster in the face of important legislation might be too high a price even for an anti-lynching bill. Said he: "Perhaps this is not the time to open wounds that...