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...Sunday, Senator Alben Barkley with his keynote speech and Senator Joseph T. Robinson with his speech as permanent chairman of the Democratic convention, came to lay their themes on the lap of their chief for editing and correction...
...their keynoter in Philadelphia next June, Democratic chieftains last week also chose a genial, slow-spoken Senator, one every bit as big and rugged and impressive-looking as Republican Steiwer. By coming out early for Franklin Roosevelt, Kentucky's Alben William Barkley got the post of keynoter at the Democratic convention in 1932. By unwavering loyalty to the New Deal, Senator Barkley won the same reward this year. He cannot, however, rehash the same speech. Denouncing and deploring four years ago, he will this year have to commend and indorse...
...fisherman's house boat, peered in a window and got three charges of buckshot in the face and neck, blinding one eye. It finally climbed a fish ladder beside the falls, roistered on up the Willamette, switched to the Pudding River and then started cross-country through Farmer Alben Erickson's pasture...
That night the superintendents listened to a debate on the New Deal among Democratic Senator Alben W. Barkley Republican Henry J. Allen (both in dinner jackets) and Socialist Norman Thomas (in business suit), rendered a decisive verdict by applause to Socialist Thomas...
Most weekends Franklin Roosevelt goes cruising on the Sequoia to get away from his troubles. Last week he took his troubles with him in the persons of two Senators and his No. i relief administrator. South Carolina's James Byrnes and Kentucky's Alben Barkley this week will have to deal with a Senate disposed to gnaw and shred the President's tax bill (see p. 16). Harry Hopkins is trying to keep the President's promise to put 3,500,000 unemployed to work by Nov. 1 and at the same time keep organized labor...