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...Farmer-Laborites were present for the first roll call, babbling, backslapping, leading their children about the floor, waving to their wives in the galleries, trying out the new spittoons. First job for the House was to elect Tennessee's Joseph Wellington Byrns to be Speaker. vice Henry T. Rainey, deceased. They did it with a cheer (see below). Their next job was to change their rules. They did it without blinking an eye (see below...
...pound class--Waldemar Z. Wysocki (H) defeated Holloway (MIT) by technical knockout, round 1; 175-pound class--Joseph F. Nee (H) won by default; Heavyweight class--E. Hamlin Turner, Jr. (H) defeated Fierman (MIT), by a technical knockout. HARVARD VIRGINIA Kostarelos 115-pound Hahn Kunen 125-pound Rainey Ward 135-pound Brooks Davis 145-pound Womer Olney 155-pound McClung Shea 165-pound Wilkin Smith 175-pound Noll Choate Heavy weight Cramer...
...Capitol feel beyond their depth in the economic theories of the New Deal, but the ancient game of trading votes is something near & dear to their hearts. Last week the unofficial but altogether real business of choosing a new Speaker of the House to succeed the late Henry T. Rainey gave them a chance fairly to wallow in their favorite pastime...
...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...
...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...