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...Speaker of the House of Representatives, with powers far beyond those of Sam Rayburn in Washington, Laurel exercises a firm control over the rich congressional pork barrel. Last July President Garcia "released" some $10 million of public funds to dole-hungry Nacionalista Congressmen, and he has promised another $60 million. Much of this money goes through Laurel's hands. But José is frowned upon by the church; he has an unsavory reputation as a hard drinker and a frequenter of nightclubs, where he has an irritable habit of picking on customers whose looks displease him. His victims...
...months ago, Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn showed up at Independence, Mo. to help Harry Truman dedicate his museum (TIME, July 15). Last week at Bonham, Texas Harry returned the favor. Sam's museum, a $500,000 Greek-temple affair in white marble, houses gavels, gimcracks and the nation's most complete private collection of books about Congress-including records of all sessions since the first Continental Congress. On hand for the museum-warming was the most complete collection of Texas big shots seen in recent years: Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, Oveta Gulp Hobby, Secretary...
...friends' dinner tables. The most spectacular jump toward the head of the table was made by Sherman Adams, Assistant to the President, who bypassed 48 governors, 96 Senators and two men of Cabinet rank, to land just below the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. House Speaker Sam Rayburn will also eat higher up on the festive board this year, jumping over foreign ambassadors and widows of former Presidents, to sit, a Texas Democrat, just below former Presidents. Reason: the speaker of the House is second in succession to the presidency. Lower at the table this year: Harold...
Politically, Orval Faubus stabbed at the heart of his own Democratic Party. During the 85th Congress, Texans Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn had labored tirelessly, skillfully and successfully to avoid a ruinous party blowup over civil rights. They had even contrived to put a Democratic stamp of sorts on civil rights legislation. Now Faubus had undone them-and Democratic politicians, in their acute embarrassment, could only pretend that Faubus did not exist. Lyndon Johnson became unavailable for comment. Grunted old Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives longer than any other man in history...
Lacking a royal family to twitter about, Washington society made do last week by hoking up a heart flutter between Mrs. Alben Berkley, 45, widow of the onetime Vice President, and cue-bald Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, 75. Bachelor (since a brief 1927 marriage) Rayburn, who squired the lady to Senator Lyndon Johnson's 49th birthday party last week, was not talking, but Jane Barkley was: "For heaven's sake! I enjoy his company immensely, and that's that...