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Speaker Sam Rayburn's speech in Sulphur Springs, Tex. was billed as a unity rally. But everybody knew that the rally was Sam Rayburn's way of hitting back at the New Deal-hating Dallas Morning News. The News has been tooth-&-claw against the 40-hour week, ignoring the fact that U.S. workers in seven key defense industries work on an average of 48.2 hours. One day the News attacked Sam Rayburn: "Let the Speaker of the House each day place on the wall behind his chair, where Old Glory's furls are draped, a fresh...
...this week Administration ramparts weakened. Nelson told labor it should not demand doubletime for Sundays and holidays. Speaker Rayburn said even more: workers should work 48 hours before they collected time-and-a-half...
That the isolationists lost in the final accounting was no thanks to Congress as a whole. Two men did most to turn the isolationist drive: Texas' little, bald, Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the House, and Massachusetts' long-toothed John McCormack. No heroes of the antique mold, they were political in-fighters doing a job for Franklin Roosevelt, but they sometimes seemed of heroic size in the dismal months...
...slowly into the House of Representatives. In the packed, still chamber stood the men & women of the House, the Senate, the Supreme Court, the Cabinet, all of the U.S. Government under one skylight roof. Below the great flat-hung Stars & Stripes stood Vice President Henry Agard Wallace, Speaker Sam Rayburn. The heavy applause lingered, gradually began to break into cheers and rebel yells. Speaker Rayburn gave one smash of his heavy gavel, introduced the President in one sentence...
Their massed ranks were too much for McCormack, for Speaker Sam Rayburn, for lumbering old Chairman Henry Steagall of the Banking and Currency Committee which had handled the bill. Quipped Republican Jesse P. Wolcott: "If the minority over there on the Democratic side will just cooperate with us, we'll pass some sort of a bill...