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...Horton, sophomore, or Bernie Rankin, the versatile veteran, who trimmed the Crimson 2-0 here last year, will be on the mound for the Connecticut team...
...town (Author Boyd's native place was near Harrisburg, Pa.). First part tells the tragic love story of Clara Rand, only daughter of Midian's coal tycoon. Clara was the greatest catch in town but she was also a character in her own right. When Fitz-Greene Rankin, a suave young newcomer from Philadelphia, began to court her, fascinated Clara put up little or no resistance; neither did her parents after they had investigated Fitz-Greene's ancestry and prospects. It looked like a conventionally respectable marriage. But Fitz, under his cool exterior, was madly in love...
...effort to check the granting of injunctions against governmental agencies, including the T.V.A. and possibly the N.R.A., Senator Norris and Representative Rankin are proposing the posting of a bond by the petitioner. This would be large enough to cover "all expenses to T.V.A. in defending the suit and all its losses pending a final decision, including the income from the sale of power of which it was deprived." Hidden in this terminology is a serious menace to the freedom of the courts...
...speaking in terms of political hyperbole. Two days later Representative Rankin renounced his aspirations for the Speakership. Later in the day Representative Rayburn did the same: "There are no alibis. Under the circumstances, I cannot be elected." And next morning Representative Bankhead dropped out of the contest. Assured of election to the highest House post on the first ballot next month, Democrat Byrns began to expand, to think of himself as already belonging to the immortal company of great Speakers. To an old acquaintance who called him "Mr. Byrns," he said, "Call me Joe? or Uncle...
...others. The Southern Democrats, being perpetually in office, possess by seniority most of the best committee posts: Buchanan of Texas heads Appropriations; Steagall of Alabama, Banking & Currency; Rayburn of Texas, Interstate & Foreign Commerce; Vinson of Georgia, Naval Affairs; McSwain of South Carolina, Military Affairs; Mansfield of Texas. Rivers & Harbors; Rankin of Mississippi, Veterans; Bankhead of Alabama, Rules. In the next House, however, some two-thirds of the 322 Democrats will come from the North and West and they, too, would like some plums. Shrewd Mr. Guffey, who always likes to play a winner, announced that he would keep...