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...week-end guests on the Potomac, the President chose three Possibilities for 1940: Senate Leader Barkley (see p. 10) and two Progressive La Follette Brothers, Senator Robert and Wisconsin's Governor Philip...
...Since the hour Joe Robinson was found dead with a bound volume of the Congressional Record beside him, there had been fierce fighting for his job. Friends of the two men lobbied on the funeral train. President Roosevelt took sides. He wrote a letter to ''Dear Alben" Barkley which referred pointedly to the fact that Mr. Barkley was now Acting Leader. A worried afterthought was the President's assurance to Pat Harrison that he was neutral. Nobody was neutral. The issue was plain: Barkley & President Roosevelt v. Harrison & Friends...
...stepped out before the funeral with his "message to Alben," not only taking up politics immediately but accusing others of not observing a decent mourning period, a good deal of Congressional blood boiled. It was not cooled by what Senators took to be an oblique effort to boost Senator Barkley as Senator Robinson's successor (see col. 2). Instead of healing, the Democratic split widened sorely. The death of Robinson had become not only a grief, but a turning point in politics. Only for Robinson did it mean an end of strife...
Great things were at stake: the fate of the President's Court Bill, and equally important, the choice of a majority leader to succeed Senator Robinson. Senator Alben Barkley of Kentucky, choice of the President for the post, and Senator Pat Harrison, backed by most of the veteran Senators and Court Bill opponents, were the rival candidates. Both kept pretty much to their staterooms. But their friends and supporters lobbied all over the train keeping a jealous eye on one another. The Republicans aboard, led by Senators Vandenberg and Bridges, looked on happily. The rest, even Senator La Follette...
...Alben Barkley is not the most popular man in the Senate. Behind him lined up mostly zealous New Dealers and freshmen Senators. Pat Harrison, on the other hand, is one of the best-liked Senators. Behind him lined up most of the anti-Roosevelt Democrats who knew he was a conservative at heart, and seasoned Senators to whom Pat Harrison is a grand old guy. Being as loyal as Joe Robinson, Pat Harrison has stood by the President, even unto the Supreme Court Bill, but not with vociferous enthusiasm. Thus both contenders were in favor of the Court Bill...