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...Alben Barkley the scene was familiar: the high-ceilinged room, and the big man propped up in the plain mahogany bed, his tremendous shoulders bulging his pa jama coat. In seven years as majority leader of the U.S. Senate, Kentucky's Barkley had talked with President Roosevelt literally hundreds of times, at all hours and in many places, including the President's bedroom...
...standout fact about Congress last week was that it was virtually leaderless, and hence thoroughly confused. In the Senate, bumbling Democratic Leader Alben Barkley, worried over almost certain defeat in Kentucky next November, was completely incapable of holding rebellious Southern Democrats in line. On the Republican side, there was an active behind-the-scenes struggle for the powers of Minority Leader Charles McNary, still ill in Fort Lauderdale...
Will the Senator Yield? This was the signal for Administration stalwarts. Majority Leader Alben Barkley inquired innocently: "How does the Senator know that of his own knowledge...
...Senate usually waits a day after committee action on nominations. But just a few hours later Stettinius was confirmed as Under Secretary of State, without a dissenting vote. Up rose Democratic Leader Alben W. Barkley in fulsome eulogy. Immediately Arthur Vandenberg, powerful Republican member of the Foreign Relations Committee, was on his feet to say that the Republicans agreed...
...Senator Alben Barldey of Kentucky clutched convulsively at his pride and howled in pain when he learned that Montana's Burton K. Wheeler had contended that Kentucky has a desert training center. "A desert in country like Kentucky!" Barkley cried. "Why, there is more sand and scrub in the City Park in Butte . . . than there is in the whole of the old Kentucky home." He found a transcript of the Montanan's remarks, fell to studying, presently announced that Wheeler must have had Fort Knox's cookery school in mind and meant to say "dessert...