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...have tougher going in November. His competition will be grey-haired Republican Simeon S. Willis, 63, a corporation lawyer and former judge. Republicans are hopeful that Kentucky is going G.O.P., that Willis will become the State's first Republican Governor since 1931. They are planning now to thrash Alben Barkley, the Senate's Majority Leader, next year. Even friends agree that White House Wheelhorse Barkley has jeopardized his narrow hold in Keutucky by blindly supporting unpopular administration proposals: the lid on farm prices, the fight against antistrike legislation...
...Senate's patient, plodding majority leader, Alben Barkley, stepped out of character as a loyal New Dealer, joined Missouri's Harry Truman in a furious attack on the Government's record in helping small business get war contracts. Said Alben Barkley: "I have held my tongue in my cheek as long as I am going to hold it there about this situation...
...recommendations; not one was adopted. In the final bill, written by Senate and House Committees with as little regard for Treasury feelings as was humanly decent, Congress inserted a clause which authorized it to short-circuit the Secretary in seeking advice and statistics from Treasury experts. Faithful Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley pleaded with his colleagues not "to slap the Secretary of the Treasury in the face," but the clause was adopted by a Senate vote...
...looked sort of sheepish. He seemed more bashful than ever when Guffey opened up with a speech of thunderous praise. Then Guffey turned things over to Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, who as toastmaster heaped on more praise. From Henry Wallace, Archibald MacLeish, the Senate's Alben Barkley came more panegyrics, more acclaim...
...refer to ... Senator Alben Barkley and . . . Senator Pepper and their Communistic New York City fellow travelers' efforts to unconstitutionally set up voting requirements for eight of our States...