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...state in your Oct. 7 issue that Sam Rayburn got four bee stings on one foot from...
...House of Representatives, where a Republican majority is even more likely, such men as Joe Martin, Charles Eaton of New Jersey, and Harold Knutson of Minnesota would assume leadership. Martin, who would replace Sam Rayburn as Speaker of the House, is on record as opposing Lend-Lease, the draft, and its extension, while advocating a general reduction of taxes for a government whose economic realm has been tremendously enlarged by national emergency. Facing Martha Sharp in the 14th District here, he has opposed workable trade agreements, price-control, and even a federal program of hot lunches for school children...
...Rayburn, Speaker of the House of Representatives, prepared to call it a summer and crawl back to Washington from his Texas ranch. It was better this year than last, when he broke an arm trying to catch one of his cows. Now the lucky statesman was suffering only from bee stings-four on one foot, from a bee in his boot...
...push the bill which had been fought through the Senate by Wisconsin's Robert La Follette Jr. In last week's maneuvers they lost the provisions for legislative policy committees for both minority and majority parties, and for an executive-legislative council. The reason: Speaker Sam Rayburn wanted to keep the four-man Democratic policy committee which meets with the President every Monday morning...
...pulses had spurted noticeably faster with each unbending Soviet demand at the Paris Conference. Voters who perhaps were not coming to love Britain more liked less the prospect of possible Russian autarchy in Europe. When Speaker Sam Rayburn left the rostrum to make his own personal plea for the loan, he spoke the thought which finally brought around many election-conscious Congressmen...