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...voted against: Reapportionment (1929), Republican tariff (1930), beer amendments (1932), Sales Tax (1932), Bonus...
Legislative Hobby: Tariff protection for Kentucky's coal, such as he wangled into this year's tax-upping bill. He is typical of that class of Democratic Senators who denounce the Republican policy of protection in general and then support it on local specifications. He joined the Democratic combination that log-rolled into the Revenue Bill the oil and coal duties but stood out against the copper and lumber items which were gotten in by similar methods. Into his mouth during the 1930 tariff fight Democratic Pressagent Charles Michelson put many a thunderous phrase against the Hawley-Smoot...
...much to unlearn about the Soviet. Early this year he silenced a "favorite son" boom in his own behalf by declaring for Franklin Delano Roosevelt. His reward was being made temporary chairman and keynoter of the Chicago convention. Despite his own blotchy record, he flayed the "Hoover-Grundy" tariff act. Most of his speech dealt with the Depression on which his party relies to win the election...
Renominated, he goes into the November election against Republican Maurice Thatcher, now a Representative. In Kentucky much is being made of Barkley's tariff and Prohibition switching. The G. O. P. calls him "barking Barkley." No Kentucky Senator has been re-elected in a generation...
Impartial observers rate him thus: a homespun Senator above the average in industry and energy; a fair legislator with 20 years' experience behind him; an economic conservative friendly to Labor; an influential Democrat, irregular only on the tariff, who could play an important part in a Democratic administration. His term expires March...