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...with almost no high-placed Administration bigwig to fight for him publicly. His on-the-scene supporters were all in the New Deal wing in the Senate, headed by Florida's Pepper and Montana's Murray. But they are not strategists. Thus it fell to Majority Leader Alben Barkley, abed in Naval Hospital with an ulcerated eye, to get up and lead the Wallace fight. First thing Barkley did was to demand a pro-Wallace statement from the White House. It was not immediately forthcoming...
...Heard New Dealing "Dear Alben" Barkley talk back to Mr. Roosevelt...
...crest of the national wave, Democrats ousted three sitting Republicans, lost at least two present seats to the G.O.P. Result: the party make-up of the new Senate will be virtually the same as the old. And it will be led again by Majority Leader "Dear Alben" Barkley, who won easy re-election in Kentucky...
Five sons had "gone off to war; only young Elden, 15, was left. On their farm in Tremonton, Utah, Mr. & Mrs. Alben Borgstrom felt lost. But regular letters came from the five absent sons; that helped to keep up their spirits...
Kentucky's massive, paunchy Alben Barkley was so outraged at this report (he, too, had been given a friendly Roosevelt back pat) that he called back all advance copies of his address nominating Franklin Roosevelt for Term IV, and threatened not to make the speech at all. Cried "Dear Alben": "I certainly don't know which shell the pea is under...