Word: parliamentarian
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...joshed owlish Herbert Morrison, veteran of 14 years in the party-conscious British House of Commons, to an American friend last week. Parliamentarian Morrison, visiting Washington on a special mission (see Food), might well wonder. His arrival coincided with a sorry spectacle on Capitol Hill...
Died. Colonel François de la Rocque, 53, founder and fiihrer of the fascistic Croix de Feu party which periodically harassed French governments of the '30s; after an operation; in Paris. He inveighed against "rotten parliamentarian-ism," boldly announced his intention to "seize power," but opposed the Nazis...
Unlimited Assets. As a parliamentarian, he has great legal know-how. On the floor of the House of Commons, he is elegant of manner, incisive, painstaking, enduringly tactful. Most masterful performance: his expert steering of the United Nations Charter through the House of Commons when he was serving as Minister of External Affairs during the Prime Minister's absence last summer...
With hardly a care on his mind, Harry Truman had left his spacious, picture-lined office in the Senate Office Building, walked over to visit Speaker Sam Rayburn in the Capitol. Others had already gathered in the Speaker's office: White House Assistant James M. Barnes and House Parliamentarian Lew Deschler. It was the kind of company Harry Truman liked. None of them was a policymaker from the high levels of the Roosevelt Administration. In his two and a half months as Vice President, Harry Truman had not been invited to sit in with the policymakers; he had continued...
...Shrewd Parliamentarian Rankin moved softly and surely. Several weeks before Congress convened he let it be known that he would try to reconstitute the committee. House leaders, sure that they could block the move by burying the resolution in the Rules Committee, paid little attention. Rankin beat them with a flanking attack never before used in Congress...