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Such was the tumultuous prelude to House passage (250-to-92) of a stringent rule by which Speaker Rainey, Majority Leader Burns and Rules Chairman Bankhead can: 1) prevent any measure from being brought up which they do not desire; 2) prevent any amendment from being offered to bills before the House; 3) limit debate and force a vote on any measure within 40 minutes. Object: to finish the Administration's legislative program and adjourn by this week or next...
...where they were pursuing a small guinea-pig-like redent. The expedition was headed by Dr. Thomas Barbour, director of the muscum of comparative zoology and professor of zoology. He was accompanied by his family and by Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Greenway of the museum staff; Mr. Froelich Rainey of Yale was the archeologist...
...were sorely tempted to pass all of them. Yet any one of them would be embarrassing to the Administration. Moreover, the longer Congress stayed in session the more likely was it that one or more of those bills could be forced to a vote. Therefore in conference with Speaker Rainey, House Leader Byrns and Rules Chairman Bankhead, President Roosevelt picked the legislation he wanted most. On his list of major measures to be passed before adjournment were bills...
...when the Democrats gained control of the House, Garner was promoted to the Speakership. Mississippi was redistricted and Collier lost a seat. Crisp dreamed of becoming a Senator and was beaten. Only Rainey remained. Last spring when the House was choosing a Speaker, John McDuffie of Alabama was a leading candidate until Doughton got busy...
...When Rainey stepped into the Speakership and Doughton into the Ways & Means chairmanship, Republicans groaned. They said Doughton had no social graces or imagination, that he neither drank nor smoked, that he rose at 6 in the morning and went to bed every night at 9, that he was absolutely impervious to influence...