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...Democratic attempt to send the bill back for rehearing was bowled over (231-to-166) while Minority Leader Sam Rayburn cried: "Everybody knows this figure [$6 billion] was picked out of the air." Everyone also knew that any legislative ceiling on expenditures was just a wishful hope and no more than a moral obligation, once the appropriation bills started coming...
Divergent opinions were voiced by Democratic leader Rayburn, who said the proposed $6,000,000,000 slash would help push reluctant millions of people abroad "into the arms of Communism," and Rep. Engel (R-Mich), chairman of the Army appropriations subcommittee, who declared that if General Eisenhower and Admiral Nimitz cannot run the army and Navy efficiently on less money they "ought to stop aside and give someone else a chance...
...intimate affair; just the Senate president pro tem, Arthur Vandenberg, Senate Majority Leader Wallace White, Speaker Joe Martin, House Majority Leader Charles Halleck and the two Democratic minority leaders, Alben Barkley and Sam Rayburn.* After 50 minutes' non-controversial conversation about war surpluses, the Maritime Commission and possible future meetings, the guests walked out to disappoint a mob of newsmen. The talk, said Senator Vandenberg, was strictly confined to matters "unpartisan"-a word he is trying to substitute for "bipartisan" in the capital vocabulary...
...planned long in advance, the House chose Massachusetts' Joseph William Martin Jr. as its 45th Speaker. It was a straight party vote (244 to 182). Retiring Speaker Sam Rayburn paid his successor a compliment: he is "a friend of mankind, a man of unquestioned character, of demonstrated ability, with a great, fine heart." Then Sam Rayburn broke precedent, swallowed his pride and reverted to the minority leadership...
Backing down form his contention of Thursday that he could and should act alone to send a contempt citation of Shapley to Speaker Sam Rayburn of the House, Rankin announced yesterday that he would present the question of Shapley's contempt to the whole committee next Friday for their approval or disapproval...