Word: rayburnisms
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After two days of savage, name-calling political debate, the Democratic majority of the U.S. House of Representatives last week passed and sent to the Senate a bill to cut income taxes next year by $20 a person. The Democrats, led by Speaker Sam Rayburn, tacked" their tax reduction (estimated cost: $2.1 billion) on to a bill to extend the badly needed revenues (estimated at $2.8 billion) from excises and the 52% corporation-tax rate. Explained New York Timesman Arthur Krock: "Instead of bringing up the $20-per-head handout bill separately on its own merits, the Rayburn plan...
...hatched by Louisiana's Democratic Representative Hale Boggs, one of some young Democrats who have been chafing under their leadership's policy of getting along with the G.O.P. Administration. Boggs & Co. wanted to open up on the Administration early in January, but were persuaded by Speaker Rayburn to hold off until after the House acted on the bill to liberalize foreign trade (TIME...
...about this." If the Democrats do not pass a tax cut this year, said Boggs, the Republicans will surely do so in the election year of 1956. "Anybody who does not think so," cried he, "is just wrong. Let's be smart and beat them to it." Sam Rayburn, sitting with the committee, listened for two hours, then gave the go-ahead. Rayburn was smarting because his party had produced most of the votes for the reciprocal trade bill and the nation's headlines had given Ike the credit. The Ways and Means Committee approved...
...snorted Dan Reed. "We'll vote it up or down." Sam Rayburn had had a score of freshmen Democrats in for break fast and had passed the word: "If you want to get along, go along." More than 20 members addressed the House. Party lines were wiped out. Ten nessee's Democratic Representative Ross Bass lashed the Republicans for not supporting the bill. As he spoke, Democratic Representative James C. Davis (who has a textile mill in his Stone Mountain, Ga. district) was conferring with Dan Reed about beating it, while Republican Joe Martin had crossed the aisle...
...bawdy drawing-room comedy Dear Charles, Tallulah, drowning out the wee, piping yips of her Maltese terrier, thundered "Dahling!" to a couple of "divine people" who had paid her homage after a hellish day in the House (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Her admirers: Democratic Speaker Sam Rayburn and Republican sometime Speaker Joe Martin, successors to the gavel of Tallulah's daddy, the late Democratic Speaker (1936-40) William B. Bankhead. After pecking each gentleman smudgily on the cheek, she primly explained: "I can't compromise them. They're both bachelors...