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...single sweep a special train carried President Roosevelt to Carrollton, III for the funeral of Speaker Henry T. Rainey, brought him back to Washington again after 30 minutes in the Rainey parlor. Two days later, the President left the White House again, this time for Hyde Park and his mother's home where he will remain until Washington cools...
...capable, is No. 2. In the 73rd Congress Vice President Garner, rather than Speaker Rainey, was the second most potent fig ure. Nonetheless, the most cold-blooded politician could not take Rainey's passing lightly. The President, truly grieved, an nounced that he would attend Rainey's funeral in Carrollton...
...Died? Henry Thomas Rainey, 73, Speaker of the House of Representatives; of angina pectoris following pneumonia; in St. Louis. A white-shocked farmer-lawyer from Carrollton, Ill., he was elected to Congress in 1902, served every ensuing term but one (1921-23). Elected Speaker by House Democrats in March 1933, he pushed through the early bills of the Roosevelt Administration, kept a blacklist of Representatives who voted anti-Administration...
...Majority Leader of the House was born. A great hulking farmer's son, he went to Amherst, dashed 100 yd. in 10.2 sec., won the heavyweight boxing championship of the college, got his A.B. in 1883. After a law course in Chicago young Rainey began to practice at Carrollton, the town in which his mother's father was the first settler. He married a Nebraska girl named Ella McBride, got himself elected to Congress from Abraham Lincoln's old district...
...farming rather than law ran in the Rainey blood. Today the Majority Leader lives in a rambling frame house on a -acre farm near Carrollton. He has pure-bred Holstein-Friesians and fine Hampshire hogs. Over his place roams a herd of sacred Japanese deer, bred from a buck and two does originally obtained from the Washington zoo in exchange for one porcupine. Childless, he has built a wading pool for neighborhood children, gives them the run of his grounds for picnics and play. His milk and corn are trucked to St. Louis. He says: "I think I have...