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Florence Umberhocker Bratten had served for 25 years as confidential secretary to Alben Barkley. A plump and jolly woman, she liked to boast that she had a first-name friend in every office in the Government. One of her friends was Charles E. ("Chuck") Shaver, counsel for the Senate Small Business Committee. In the 1948 and 1950 campaigns, Shaver was Barkley's personal aide...
MIDDLE EAST The Forgotten Prominent Americans, led by former Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. and Vice President Alben Barkley, busied themselves last week trying to sell a $500 million Israeli bond issue in the U.S. Israel, it was pointed out. is taking in some 6,000 refugees a week, and needs help badly. Nothing was said, however, about the people who became refugees as a result of Israel's birth-the 880,000 Palestinian Arabs uprooted by the Arab-Israeli war.* In December 1948, a U.N. resolution suggested that Israel take them back...
When they got word that five-star Generals Omar Bradley and George C. Marshall were checking into Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, current residence of five-star General Douglas MacArthur, and that Vice President Alben W. Barkley was also arriving, hotel protocol experts went into a huddle, reached a solution that seemed to satisfy everyone. MacArthur's red five-star flag, usually flown at the front entrance, was moved around to another door in honor of all three generals. The white Veep flag (13 stars and the American eagle) was hoisted over the main door. But later the experts...
...North Georgia Methodist Conference in Atlanta, Vice President Alben W. Berkley explained how he happened to become a Methodist himself. "My ancestors were Presbyterians for six generations," said the Veep, "but I was at a Methodist college-old Emory at Oxford, Ga. I decided to become a Methodist when I was 17. I decided I could be just as good a man in the Methodist Church as in the Presbyterian Church, if I wanted...
...York friends of Vice President Barkley . . . are turning a cold, hard gaze on current maneuverings of certain high Democratic strategists to dump the Vice President as Harry Truman's running mate ... So let's have an end to this sneaky attempt by political schemers to sell Alben short. He's solid-and still aging in the wood...