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House Speaker Sam Rayburn, who has been re-elected 15 times in a row, is not one to miss a political trick. This year he decided to surprise the 2,000 graduating high-school pupils in his Texas district with little parchment "diplomas...
What made Sam Rayburn's new wrinkle newsworthy was that the diplomas were lettered by six Army draftsmen, working in the Pentagon building behind a door marked SECRET. Hastily Sam Rayburn announced that he was footing the bill ($339.61); indignantly he denied that he was mending political fences. He just thought it a good year, he said, to greet high-school students...
Texas' Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the House, who manfully (and successfully) strives to carry out Franklin Roosevelt's orders, without himself losing the love of Congress...
...deadlock, stubborn old Robert L. ("Muley") Doughton finally gave in. Lectured by Speaker Sam Rayburn, prodded unmercifully by Republicans, he called his Ways & Means Committee together, ordered it to report some kind of tax bill by this week...
...most Congressmen merely mumbled. Murmured Speaker Sam Rayburn: "I have not studied it completely yet, but I do feel that some of the suggestions are very good." House Majority Leader John W. McCormack ducked: "This is one of the most important issues we have to face...