Word: seatful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Paducah, Ky. is the home town not only of Funnyman Irvin S. Cobb but of ("Dear") Alben Barkley. leader of the New Deal majority in the Senate. Since Governor Albert B. ("Happy") Chandler is hot after Mr. Barkley's seat,*Paducah will be Franklin Roosevelt's most Important political stop, on July 9. Next on his visiting list will come Oklahoma, where faithful Senator Elmer Thomas is up for reelection, next, his son Elliott in Fort Worth, Texas...
Glowering in his seat across the aisle, just as he had last December when the House brought the original Black-Connery Bill to the floor only to amend it to death and bury it by recommitment, sat the most implacable foe that wages-&-hours legislation has in the House: Georgia's bushy-headed Edward Eugene ("Goober") Cox. Mrs. Norton's revised bill provided a universal floor for wages beginning at 25? an hour, to be stepped up within three years to 40?. It provided a ceiling for the workweek beginning at 44 hours, to be lowered within...
While other Senators joined the hue & cry. Majority Leader Barkley got in touch with Harry Hopkins. That very day the campaign manager of Governor "Happy" Chandler of Kentucky (a candidate this year for Barkley's Senate seat) had published a letter to President Roosevelt in which he charged, with affidavits to match, that WPA jobs in Kentucky were only for Barkley voters. Said Mr. Barkley, specially anxious to quell the storm of poll-priming indignation...
Aspiring to contest the Senate seat of Iowa's Guy Mark Gillette, Otha Wearin was encouraged when that handsome statesman fell into bad repute with the White House by voting against the President's Supreme Court bill last year. He was further encouraged by certain Administration lieutenants who believed that if they could get a Wearin nominated for the Senate in so pivotal a State as Iowa, it would put the fear of F. D. R. into Democratic Senators even more recalcitrant than Gillette...
...Continental's funds: to buy all stock of Corporate Administration, Inc., substantially the only asset of which was a management contract with Administered Fund Second, Inc.: to buy stock of an aircraft corporation regarded by the trustee as of little or no value; to buy a stock exchange seat for a customer's man; to make a loan (now defaulted) on two second-hand airplanes. Trustee Ballantine wants to return the Reynolds* and Corporate Administration stock, get back the money Continental paid...