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Genial old Alben Barkley packed up a stock of his best political pleasantries and was off last week by chartered airliner, explaining everything to the voters. From Oshkosh, Wis., through the farm belt and up along the Pacific Coast, the 72-year-old campaigner hustled from airport to auditorium, from speech to banquet to rally, always leaving them laughing...
...nearest thing to it: Franklin Roosevelt's telegram to Alben Barkley, then Senate Majority Leader, after Roosevelt had called a tax bill "relief not for the needy but for the greedy." Barkley had resigned in a fury, reconsidered only after the President's apology...
...declared a Communist front. He had attended a dinner given by the Southern Conference on Human Welfare, he was free to admit, but the organization had never been labeled subversive by the Attorney General. Furthermore, the honor guest at the dinner was Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black. Alben Barkley was Toastmaster and Harry Truman was an honorary vice-chairman...
...first ship-christening, pretty Mrs. Alben Berkley smashed the bottle against the new luxury liner President Jackson with a right good will, grimaced good-naturedly as the champagne showered over her pale blue dress...
Cornered by a direct question, Kentucky's Alben Berkley made an admission: yes, it is true that he mixes ginger ale with his bourbon. "The ginger ale may not do much for the bourbon," the Veep explained, "but the bourbon certainly does something for the ginger...