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...fighting speech in his fighting home State of Texas, House Speaker Sam Rayburn let a secret out of the bag: the U.S. was producing over 3,300 planes a month...
...Mexico. Sam Rayburn, the House speaker, who comes from Texas, urged "further study" although Bernard Baruch's rubber report, giving a choice of discomfort or defeat, was only ten weeks old. Some Texans drove across the Mexican boundary, registered their cars there, paid about $180 in duties, got Mexican tires and gas. Californians feared rationing would mean a traffic holocaust, especially in spread-out Los Angeles; they freely used words like panic, riot to describe their fears of what rationing might bring...
House Majority Leader John W. Mc-Cormack went on the air with a plea for Democratic victory, Speaker Sam Rayburn with a stanch defense of the Congress. Before week's end most of the party's bigwigs would be insisting that this is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party: Senate Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley in Illinois and Michigan, Senator Albert B. Chandler in Illinois, Senator Claude Pepper in California, Senator Robert F. Wagner in Rhode Island, Senator Lister Hill in New Jersey...
Against this combination the Great Compromiser, Speaker Sam Rayburn, was helpless. In three riotous days of debate in the House, the farm bloc hammered the Administration to its knees, as the lobbyists sat smugly, warily watching in the galleries, calling for floods of wires from back home in the district of any Representative who weakened, or thought of the war. The bill passed, 205-to-172, with provisions pegging parity at what amounted to 112%, and raising the floor under prices (by Government crop loans) from 85% to 90% of parity...
...Senate resolution, with a minimum of details over which Congressmen could bicker, looked like the only kind of action that could possibly be taken by the Oct. 1 deadline. The question now was whether the members would oppose it in public as bitterly as they did in private. Sam Rayburn held his breath...