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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other man (Henry Clay, elected Speaker his first day, served ten years). Eighth of eleven children of a Confederate cavalryman, Rayburn comes from tough, Bible-reading ("Every bit of wisdom is written somewhere in that book") people, who scratched a living from 40 sun-baked acres of cotton at Bonham, Texas. Folks such as his family, he thinks, are the "real people," and his feeling for them forms the basis of his political liberalism. Since 1913 Rayburn has represented Texas' agricultural (cattle, corn, cotton) Fourth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: I Love This House | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

...they knew better. Their only hope for trimming down the second most powerful Congressman was to enlist the sympathy of Mr. Sam himself. Meekly, they wrote to him at his home in Bonham, Texas to petition for an interview. Carefully, they grapevined the gist of their case: they wanted nothing, really, except to increase the Speaker's own control over Smith's difficult committee. Perhaps, they hinted, Mr. Sam would add an extra liberal Democrat to the Rules Committee (eight Democrats, four Republicans), thus weaken Smith's coalition of conservative Republicans and Southern Democrats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Mr. Sam's House Rules | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

Half a continent away in Bonham, Texas, at the same time, another Washington prime mover was also scrutinizing the near future. From where he stood, Sam Rayburn could see in it a Democratic Congress and another term (his ninth) as Speaker of the House. But he saw as well something of the same aims and ends that motivated Dwight Eisenhower. Therefore, said Mr. Sam, there will not be "bad blood" between the President and the new Congress. "We're not going to hate Eisenhower bad enough for us to change our principles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Years Ahead | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

...somewhat anticlimactic. "Respectable," said the London Times, rather unchivalrously, "but hardly exciting." Added the Daily Telegraph: "The list makes history -without unduly disturbing it." Absent were the expected names of sharp-tongued, Virginia-born Lady Astor, the first lady to sit in Britain's Parliament, and Lady Violet Bonham Carter, busy daughter of the late Prime Minister Sir Herbert Henry Asquith. Also missing: the Viscountess Rhondda, who died last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Respectable, But.. . | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

...Bonham Carter,* was on the stump at least three times a night drawing cheers with her assaults on "the muddled controls of the Labor Party and the uncontrolled muddle of the Tories" and harking back to the glorious days of Liberalism when her father, Lord Asquith, was Prime Minister (1908-16). Last week Bonham-Carter triumphantly topped the Tory candidate by a narrow 219 votes (with Labor a poor third) and became the new M.P. from Torrington. Mused a Devon farmer in corduroy breeches and leather leggings: "The Liberals may be no better'n no worse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Liberal Revival | 4/7/1958 | See Source »

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