Word: alben
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...accuse conservatives of holding up the tax bill so that they could "blackmail" him into approving cuts-almost all of which would come out of his cherished Great Society programs. A President had not used such strong tones with Congress since 1944, when F.D.R. vetoed another tax bill* and Alben Barkley, tears streaming down his face, resigned as Senate majority leader to protest the President's words-only to be re-elected unanimously the next...
Died. Jane Hadley Barkley, 52, widow of Alben, a comely St. Louis secretary who caught the Veep's fancy on a visit to Washington in 1949 (he was then 71, she 38), suddenly found herself swept up in one of the most popular and public courtships in history as her "Punkin" shuttled between his Washington desk and her St. Louis home until he won her hand four months later; of a heart attack; in Washington...
...legislature. His Republican opponent, Louie B. Nunn, 39, called the order "dictatorial," vowed to rescind it. Breathitt's pluralities fell sharply in such forget-it-we're-Democrats places as western Kentucky's First Congressional District, the old Kentucky home of the late Democratic Vice President Alben W. Barkley. Louisville, where Negroes have full franchise, gave Breathitt a 4,000-vote margin over Nunn...
...Liberty. The war between Capitol Hill and 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue came to a climax with F.D.R.'s veto, over the desperate pleas of Democratic Senate Leader Alben W. Barkley, of a 1944 tax bill. Barkley's one-vote election as majority leader over Mississippi's Pat Harrison had come only with the all-out help of the Administration, and he had felt obligated ever since. But this was too much. Barkley resigned from his leadership post in a highly emotional Senate moment. Senate Democrats promptly caucused and unanimously re-elected Barkley-now, they thought, a free...
...John R. Heller Jr. and the late Thomas M. Rivers. The university also produced three noted historians-Yale's C. Vann Woodward, Virginia's Dumas Malone, Stanford's David Potter -plus Columbia Classicist Moses Hadas (see story below), Golfer Bobby Jones and the late Veep Alben Barkley...