Word: dears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even strangers, and shows it when they put personal demands on his life. Right after his wedding in 1949, he overheard his bride say: "Will someone fix my jacket before I go out and face that mob?" Said the bridegroom: "Why, that's no mob out there, my dear, that's the American people." When the American people began to make sightseeing detours through the driveway of the Barkley farm, Mrs. Barkley was all for putting up a sign: "Private Property, No Trespassing." But Mr. Democrat put his foot down. Today, despite the fact that a family...
...Senate, two years later was in such good graces that he was allowed to second the nomination of Al Smith at the convention. He stumped for Smith, stumped again in 1932 for Franklin Roosevelt. In 1937 Roosevelt threw Barkley the majority leadership of the Senate by the famous "Dear Alben" letter,* and "Dear Alben"-sometimes known as "Bumbling Barkley"-amiably suffered the charges of sharp-tongued critics who said that he was nothing but a Roosevelt errand...
Franklin Roosevelt mumbled a half-apology in a "Dear Alben" telegram. But five months later, when Barkley was getting ready to nominate Roosevelt for a fourth term at the Democratic Convention, Barkley got the news that Roosevelt had passed him over as a candidate for Vice President in favor of Harry Truman. This was a personal hurt, but not an affront to the party, so Barkley pulled himself together and made the hall echo with his eulogy of the Chief...
...letter, written to Barkley as acting majority leader immediately after the death of Majority Leader Joe Robinson, was Roosevelt's last-gasp effort to revive his Supreme Court packing bill in Congress. By addressing "Dear Alben," Roosevelt indicated his preference for Barkley over a powerful rival for the leadership, Mississippi's Pat Harrison. Barkley squeaked into the job by a vote...
...face of an elderly woman as she swayed and clapped to music and speeches; the sight of Committee Secretary Mrs. Charles Howard slipping off her shoes before advancing to the rostrum. Its microphones eavesdropped on some private remarks, e.g., Mrs. Howard to National Committee Chairman Guy Gabrielson: "No, dear, I know that I'm supposed to read it down to here"; and Herbert Hoover to the operator of the stalled Teleprompter from which he read his speech...