Word: cans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While such scenes are obviously pleasing to Johnson, his friends see his real mission as creating a bloc of votes that can influence, if not determine, the Democrats' choice of a candidate. Johnson and his sagacious Texas sidekick, Speaker Sam Rayburn, expect to hold more than 300 delegate votes...
The resounding proclamation got plenty of headlines, but it suffered from one basic defect: House Speaker Sam Rayburn and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, the Democrats who can do most to translate the program into law, stayed far, far away from the D.A.C. session and said not a good word...
Give Them Air. About the only thing that the M.P. can call his own is a single locker that is not even big enough to hold an ordinary briefcase. But a special loop of pink ribbon hangs beside the locker-dating from the days when Members were required to check...
Running Water. "Logic," Winston Churchill once quipped about the House, "is a poor guide compared with custom." And that, in fact, is just the trouble. By an act of 1536, Westminster "is reputed and called the King's Palace at Westminster forever." Its administrative head is the Lord Great...
Generally, the Overseas Chinese have tried to stay out of the ideological battles of their homeland, or out of fear or self-interest have played both sides. Many, while insisting they are nonCommunist, are privately proud of how well Red China stood off the white man's armies in...