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...Received from Illinois' Rainey a bill, sponsored by Speaker Garner, to provide $2,100,000,000 for unemployment relief and public works, partly financed by a ¼? a gallon gasoline...
...Homer Price Rainey, president...
...with clerks of the same name, presumably wives, daughters, sons, brothers or sisters on the payroll. ¶ Six members (Ohio's Brand, Louisiana's Fernandez, Texas' Garner, Texas' Williams, Minnesota's Christgau, Kentucky's Thatcher) with two namesakes hired. ¶ Democratic Floor Leader Rainey paying his wife Ella $208.33 per month as secretary. ¶ Chairman Collier of the Ways & Means Committee paying Laura Collier $180 per month. ¶Chairman Vinson of the Naval Affairs Committee paying Mary Vinson $116.66 per month...
Speaker Garner, Majority Leader Rainey, Minority Leader Snell and Acting Chairman Crisp of the Ways & Means Committee were all powerless to stop the rowdy stampede. Weary and disheartened after a two-day drubbing, Chairman Crisp uprose to say: "I may be defeated but I'm never a quitter. I don't believe the House is in a proper frame of mind to legislate today. I think it would do us all good to have an opportunity to cool off and to think." Thereupon at his suggestion the House adjourned, laying the tax bill aside for three full days...
Representative Rainey, the Democratic floor leader, was no less hostile toward the President's plan: "We're not going to do it. This isn't the President's baby. It's ours. If this is the best the President can do in advising Congress we don't need any more suggestions from...