Word: rayburnisms
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...Harriman-Kefauver forces, beaten again, decided they needed an adjournment to rally their strength and prevent a ballot that night. Senator Paul Douglas, like a man possessed, shouted, "Mr. Chairman! Mr. Chairman!" In a hoarse, weird croak, he moved adjournment. When it looked as if Chairman Rayburn might let the convention dispose of the matter by voice vote, Douglas, his face contorted in frenzy, shouted. "Roll call! Roll call!" The roll was called, and the convention decided to stay in session...
...jungle of neglected legislation which had to be dealt with before the 82nd Congress could adjourn for the last time. Night after night, a small light under the statue on the Capitol dome burned brightly, indicating that Congress was at work. In the House chamber, weary Speaker Sam Rayburn, pausing only to spit with experienced accuracy into his goboon, cleared hundreds of routine bills with incessant repetition of the magic words:' "Without objection, so ordered...
Speaker Sam Rayburn is being mentioned as a dark-horse possibility. Drawbacks: little color or political appeal, little experience outside Congress...
...collection of reformers, big-city bosses, labor leaders and Southern conservatives. If the party's national convention goes into a long deadlock over Kefauver, Harriman and Russell, the delegates may turn to Barkley, who is loved by all factions. Or they may turn to House Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas, who is respected by all factions...
...hitch is that Rayburn is 70 years old and Barkley will be 75 in November. No major U.S. party ever nominated a man as old as 70. For that reason, Barkley's and Rayburn's chances are slim. Yet teamed with a younger man as candidate for Vice President (e.g., Stevenson or Harriman), either of the old names might appeal to a badly divided convention...