Word: mccormack
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was never any question about who would succeed Mr. Sam in the Speaker's high-backed swivel chair for the remainder of the session. For the eleventh time during his 17 years as House majority leader, Democrat John McCormack of Massachusetts was for mally elected as Speaker pro tern. Since there is little legislation pending that is likely to demand Mr. Sam's presence, McCormack will run the House until it adjourns toward the end of September. If Rayburn's health were to cause his resignation this session, McCormack would be the automatic choice...
Inevitably, there was already some speculation about a successor if Rayburn were physically unable to carry on as Speaker. Among the most likely possibilities: Majority Leader John McCormack of Massachusetts; Missouri's Richard Boiling, a Rayburn protégé and a key liberal member of the House Rules Committee; Alabama's Albert Rains, a progressive Southerner; and Pennsylvania's Francis ("Tad") Walter, chairman of the Un-American Activities Committee and a conservative Northerner who commands respect for his parliamentary abilities...
...appeared that the House would also approve the measure. As of last week, the aid-to-education bill seemed all but certain to die in the House. The man who had done the most to ruin the bill's chances was none other than House Majority Leader John McCormack, like the President a Roman Catholic from Massachusetts. McCormack favors, as a necessary counterpart to the public school bill, amendments to the National Education Defense Act that would permit federal loans to be made to Catholic and private schools for classroom construction. As of last week, he had persuaded...
...Wyzanski-McCormack feud is a family affair, arising from a misunderstanding. As attorney general of Massachusetts, McCormack's nephew, Edward McCormack Jr., had prepared a case against 18 road-paving companies, accusing them of conspiracy to fix prices in public highway construction. Mindful of the interests of 39 cities and towns that had done business with the firms, he fired off letters advising each community that it would have to file suit for triple damages before a certain deadline. Only nine of the towns made the deadline- and Wyzanski mistakenly decided that McCormack had somehow finagled the others...
Last week, in the wake of the blasts against him from Capitol Hill, Judge Charles Wyzanski seemed unwontedly humble. In a face-to-face meeting, he shook hands with Eddie McCormack and apologized publicly for past disputes. "It was really undesirable and uncharitable of me," he said in his courtroom. In Washington, John McCormack declared that the war was over-at least until Charles Wyzanski kicks up another controversy...