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House. But last week Mr. Roosevelt held the conference in his bedroom. The other leaders-Vice President Wallace, Speaker Rayburn, House Majority Leader John McCormack-were already there when Alben Barkley walked...
...breast of capon, burgundy), speakers and audience also took it for granted that Franklin D. Roosevelt is the only Democrat who can win in 1944. Second place on the ticket was the only puzzle. Friends of Paul McNutt moved energetically among the guests. The stock of House Speaker Sam Rayburn (who spoke in the President's regular spot at Jack son Day dinners) went up perceptibly. But by the time Vice President Henry Wallace rose to affirm that the "ageless" New Deal was far from dead, big & little Democrats were ready to admitit: if the President insists on Henry...
...first time since 1932, House Democrats no longer had a numerical majority. With the resignation of New York's Joseph Gavagan, House Democratic strength had sunk to 217. (Because of vacancies and minor party members, Democrats still have a 217-to-208 plurality over Republicans.) But Speaker Sam Rayburn had few illusions about his ability to control his decimated flock. It is an election year, he said, and there will be a lot of talk in Congress. The best he could hope for was that it will be good talk...
...have just completed a minute search of the city of Bonham searching for "the Bonham general store" which the writer of your article about Sam Rayburn in the Sept. 27 issue so glibly mentions...
...cover page of TIME, Sept. 27, above the very handsome picture of Speaker Sam Rayburn of the national House of Representatives, it would appear that the White House holds its guard with its left hand up while the nation's Capitol is guilty of unorthodox ring form. When the writer was receiving his primary ring instructions and being coached in the technique of ring strategy, it was a must always to lead with the left...