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When he heard what his party was doing across the Capitol, House Leader Rainey, old Amherst fisticuffer, threw a new proposal into the ring. Observing that the Federal Government had never had much luck getting back money loaned to States he advised: "If the Federal Government is going to distribute relief, then it had better handle such relief itself...
...lookout during the recess was: Everyone now being agreed that taxes must be raised, what will be the Democrats' taxation program? The Administration's program was known: a two-year return to the generally higher, broader tax levels of 1924 (TIME, Dec. 14). Floor Leader Rainey, Chairman Collier of the House Ways & Means Committee and Senator Pat Harrison, ranking minority member of the Senate Finance Committee, were three leading Democrats left in Washington last fortnight. A few days before the year's end the Press obtained from them some sketchy hints which were immediately reported...
Majority Leader Rainey: I move the House resolve itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. . . . Nothing of importance will be presented for the balance of the week. . . . There's no reason why gentlemen who live in nearby cities can't go home...
...Democratic for the first time in twelve years, standing and cheering, Speaker Garner in a brown-speckled suit was ceremoniously led up the new blue carpet to the rostrum, duly installed. With one autocratic sweep he swore in the whole House membership at once. Other Democratic elections: Henry Thomas Rainey of Illinois, Majority Leader; South Trimble of Kentucky, House Clerk; Kenneth Romney of Montana, Sergeant-at-Arms. Rules revision was temporarily postponed as some 5,000 legislative proposals were plopped into the bill basket...
...ride if she grew tired, and set out from Cairo. The more relics he collected the more his wife had to walk, but Bridegroom Breasted tramped all the way and enjoyed it. He had been a runner at school. When he took his relics back to Chicago, President William Rainey Harper made him Assistant in Egyptology-the first chair of Egyptology in any U. S. university...