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...time college and semiprofessional pitcher, he likes being where he can get off to a big-league baseball game with Vice President Garner as often as possible. He likes being near the Burning Tree Golf Club where he shoots in the 80's with Democratic Senator Barkley or Republican Sena tor McNary for opponents. He likes being where he can spend an evening watching a wrestling match or sitting in on a game of bridge or poker, which he plays expertly, with considerable bluffing. He likes to be where his hosts of bigwig friends are com ing & going, where...
First, however, Kentucky's Barkley and Texas' Connally prepared to fight fire with fire by tacking on amendments directing the Tariff Commission to supply names of big industrial corporations which had benefited by the tariff, with estimates of the amounts which that form of Government subsidy had put into their pockets. Also, Democrats pounced on Republican Vandenberg's Presidential aspirations, denounced the political motive of his inquiry...
...their keynoter in Philadelphia next June, Democratic chieftains last week also chose a genial, slow-spoken Senator, one every bit as big and rugged and impressive-looking as Republican Steiwer. By coming out early for Franklin Roosevelt, Kentucky's Alben William Barkley got the post of keynoter at the Democratic convention in 1932. By unwavering loyalty to the New Deal, Senator Barkley won the same reward this year. He cannot, however, rehash the same speech. Denouncing and deploring four years ago, he will this year have to commend and indorse...
...Senator Barkley of Kentucky received a call from the White House one morning canceling his appointment to lunch with the President that day. A preferred luncheon guest, Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt, had arrived unexpectedly in Washington...
That night the superintendents listened to a debate on the New Deal among Democratic Senator Alben W. Barkley Republican Henry J. Allen (both in dinner jackets) and Socialist Norman Thomas (in business suit), rendered a decisive verdict by applause to Socialist Thomas...