Word: grievers
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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...Congressman was too obscure to issue a eulogy of the dead Speaker. One potent griever was Representative Joseph W. Byrns of Tennessee, majority leader; another Representative William Bankhead of Alabama, Chairman of the potent Rules Committee; a third, Representative John McDuffie, also of Alabama. By normal "right of succession," Leader Byrns should be elected Speaker in January. Mr. McDuffie was an unsuccessful candidate when Rainey was elected in March, 1933. These two, Mr. Bankhead, and perhaps others, will doubtless be candidates for the Speakership again. A many-sided quarrel arousing factional bitterness will not make it any easier...
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