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...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...
...third term as Governor. Through three decades and 13 elections, Kentucky had only once denied him victory at the polls. That was in 1938 when Happy, then Governor, tried to knock off one of the most popular Kentucky Democrats of all time: Senator (later Vice President) Alben W. Barkley. Thus this spring Happy confidently returned to the stump in his Bible-quoting, backslapping manner-and the crowds seemed to love him. Chandler had an enticing campaign promise: he would eliminate the 3% state sales tax on food, medicine and clothing...
When he bobs his greying head and puckers his face into a smile, even his opponents have to grin back. He is easily the Senate's most amusing raconteur since Alben Barkley, whether he is quoting from the Bible, from Omar Khayyam, or Old Uncle Ephraim back in North Carolina's hill country...