Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alben Barkley had not always felt that close to Harry Truman. In the last three years, as Truman's Senate leader, he was often caught flatfooted by Administration proposals of which he had had no previous notice. On one such occasion he angrily told a White House aide: "This is like playing catcher in a night ball game. I not only am not getting the signals, but someone actually turns out the lights when the ball is tossed...
Loyalty is the first page in Alben Barkley's book. In his 23 years in Congress, he dutifully voted as a party regular, was elected majority leader in 1937. No man was more popular with his colleagues. His good humor was legendary, his wit the Senate's best...
...less than a month, the national convention of the Liberal Party would meet -to pick a party leader to succeed retiring Mackenzie King. Hats began to go into the ring. Short, scrappy Agriculture Minister James Gardiner last week announced: "I have agreed that those who think I would make a suitable leader for the party might place my name in nomination...
...expect most of Saskatchewan's no, some of British Columbia's 93, and Alberta's 97. He cannot count on Manitoba's 97, which should be solid for Manitoba's own Premier Stuart Garson (said to be Mackenzie King's choice for leader a few years hence). Nor can Gardiner count on the Maritime provinces' 186 votes, which are now destined for a favorite son, Premier Angus Macdonald...
...Famed Cellist Maas, leader of the Paganini Quartet, had died a dozen or so miles away, at Oakland's Mills College, at the end of a concert...