Word: byrneses
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Close harmony was not lacking. Abetted by the Shoreham Hotel's blonde Accordionist Ida Clarke, Senator Byrnes, who opposed Barkley's election, intoned When I Grow Too Old To Dream, and in a sentimental mood Alben Barkley himself, without rising from his seat, gave his favorite rendition of...
The fight was over the Administration's $1,500,000,000 Relief bill for fiscal 1938. In the House vigorous attempts were made to attach earmarking amendments to provide pork for the constituencies of various Congressmen (TIME, June 7 et seg.), but in the Senate the revolt against the...
This produced a very delicate political situation. Since 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...
Senator J. Hamilton Lewis, Illinois' dudish oldster, who plays along closely with the New Deal, harried angry Senator Robinson by asking for an explanation '"why the amendment is necessary at all . . . if it is already in the power of the President to use his discretion as to the...
At a White House press conference a newshawk laughingly asked whether the President was going to "confirm" the Senate's "nomination" for the Supreme Court. Franklin Roosevelt grimaced, declared that all reports of whom he would nominate should be labeled "Surmise No. 23." Meanwhile Senators began to cast about...