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...grew red and angry. A few moments later his heart began to flutter and pain ran through his chest. He went out on the terrace to sit in a rocker until he felt better. He decided to take a day of rest. He held a conference with Senator Alben Barkley of Kentucky and other lieutenants who were leading his Court fight, then returned home although he could not well be spared from the fight...
...dined. He was dressed in his frock coat and encased in a copper casket stippled over with silver which was stood in the same gloomy corner where the caskets of Senator Walsh and Senator Fletcher stood not long ago. The next morning 15 Senators led by Assistant Leader Barkley appeared at Hysong's. By orders of Mrs. Robinson nobody was to see the body, so they settled themselves in the room across the corridor, where food and drink were brought them and they remained until the establishment closed at 10 p. m., visiting with one another and with some...
...daring to oppose him. Burning with anger, most of the Democratic Senators opposed to the bill promptly volunteered to go to Indiana and campaign for Mr. Van Nuys next year. Their anger soon rose to greater heights. Day before the Robinson funeral, the President wrote a letter to Senator Barkley who was spending the day at Hysong's funeral parlor...
...Senator Robinson has been promised a place on the Supreme Court, there are two chief candidates to succeed him as majority leader. One, favored by most of the older Democratic Senators, is Senator Byrnes. The other, not so popular with the Senators but preferred by the President is Senator Barkley. Senator Barkley not yet majority leader nevertheless openly led the Administration's fight, rallying several more or less radically inclined freshmen Senators such as Schwartz of Wyoming and Pepper of Florida. He was credited with having been given the go-ahead signal by the White House...
...discretion as to the amount of local contributions required." Losing his temper, Joe Robinson turned on him and bellowed: "I can give the Senator from Illinois the explanation, but-Great God!-I respectfully decline to give him understanding." The final scene of the debate was almost tearful. Alben Barkley cried: "I never expected to see the floor of the U. S. Senate turned into a theatre where a scene from the Merchant of Venice would be re-enacted with Uncle Sam playing the role of Shylock." Carter Glass stamped onto the floor and delivered a philippic upon "economic blunders...