Word: rainey
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...President boarded the Sequoia to spend the weekend talking with Raymond Moley. But even while cruising on the broad Chesapeake, he was not free from disturbing news. The Sequoia's wireless brought it to him: Henry T. Rainey of the snowy locks was dead in St. Louis (see p. 51). The Sequoia's radio sent back the President's words...
...death meant more than the loss of a public servant. It meant the loss of the servant of the New Deal who had the job of keeping a rubber-stamp Congress stamping confirmation on the New Deal's desires. Some questioned the efficiency but none the loyalty of Representative Rainey as stamp handler. These pointed out that he had been given a more stamp-like Congress than any Speaker in recent years and yet he had not prevented the overriding of the President's Veterans veto...
...President himself is the foremost guide of legislation, and the Speaker, if 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...
...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 for the winning Democrat to manage the House next year...
...noisiest Republican hecklers in the House. He shouted loudly over the tax bill and tried to block it by getting a sales tax included. He shouted loudly over Dr. Wirt and the iniquities of the Brain Trust. Last week he got into an argument with Speaker Rainey over a question of procedure and tied up business in the House for an hour and a quarter until he was finally and decisively voted down. Several Democrats saluted him with Indian war-whoops, as a subtle reminder that the judge who voided Barnett's marriage to Anna Laura Lowe remarked...