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...committee, ready to send the loan to the Senate floor, asked no questions. Said Chairman Alben W. Barkley: "Thank you, Mr. Fish. Your statement will be considered by the committee, when it gets around to it." That might be a long time...
...bigwigs (Secretary of Commerce Henry Wallace, Senator Alben Barkley, Mayor O'Dwyer), innocently anxious to sponsor any benevolent-sounding cause, and ignoring the timing of the new campaign, endorsed Birobidjan...
Cried Kentucky's 58-year-old Senator Alben Barkley: "That does not annoy me in the slightest. . . . Mr. Walker is by no means a doddering...
...week's end the whole investigation seemed about to collapse in a roar of political ill temper. Chairman Alben W. Barkley, also out of patience with the Republican members, announced that he might quit too. So did Georgia's Democratic Senator Walter. George, who has seldom opened his mouth during the hearings...
...morning last week big, bluff Senator Alben Barkley rose in the caucus room of the Senate Office Building and rapped for order. Spectators filled the hall to the corners. Senator Barkley asked for absolute quiet; the acoustics are notoriously bad. The Congressional commit tee's investigation of Pearl Harbor had begun: in the days & weeks to follow, history would be dragged up from the dark corners, dusted off and laid out on the committee table for the world to read...