Word: rayburnisms
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Broad Grant. Bald, faithful Speaker Sam Rayburn, who rushed back from a vacation on his Texas ranch to steer some kind of measure quickly through the House, soon sensed Congress' temper. He and the House majority leader, tall, toothy John W. McCormack of Massachusetts, huddled with the President, made their plans...
...agreement on Capitol Hill. In the House, Chairman Henry N. Steagall introduced a bill more pleasing to the farm bloc: it established a new, higher kind of "parity" based partly on wages paid to farm help and guaranteed farmers these parity prices for three years after the war. Rayburn conferred, reconferred, conferred again...
...ranking officers in the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics ("Gentlemen, we have work to do"), Army, Navy and Congress leaders in Speaker Sam Rayburn's office, "a great throng . . . looking west across San Diego harbor, and out beyond Point Loma to the Pacific...
...casual visitor in the House gallery could have guessed that a critical moment of the 77th Congress was at hand. Speaker Rayburn merely drawled: "The question is on agreeing to the motion of the gentleman from Missouri." There was no debate. As casually as if it were considering a new post office, the House voted 205-128 not to agree with the gentleman...
...whip is to keep a finger on his party's pulse, head off revolts against Administration policy, keep a sharp lookout for opposition deals. With the Speaker, Sam Rayburn, and Majority Leader McCormack, he helps plot procedure and strategy. When votes are needed, the whip must bring them...