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...Rayburn of Texas left the microphone in the well of the House where he had been speaking, picked his way hurriedly back up to the marble dais and the gavel of his authority. The Speaker's face was strained, but he had the composure of a gambler whose bet is down. Tennessee's Jere Cooper, Speaker pro tempore, spoke the ritual words: "The time of the gentleman from Texas has expired-all time has expired...
Little egg-bald Speaker Rayburn had added up the list of bolters. The answer was disaster...
...clerk's voice boomed: "Allen of Illinois!" "No!" "Allen of Louisiana!" ";Yes."The count seesawed, nip & tuck. Not until the "Ws" were reached could Rayburn be sure. He announced the vote at 4:25, in the hushed House: "212 ayes to 194 nays." The bill was passed. A shift of ten votes would have killed it. Of 159 Republicans, 137 had voted against repeal. But if 22 Republicans had voted against repeal instead of for it, the bill would have been beaten. In the two days of debate the Republican leader, Joe Martin of Massachusetts, had said only five...
WASIUNGTON (UP) -- Congressional action "at the earliest possible moment" on anti-strike legislation was promised by House Speaker Sam Rayburn, D., Texas, today as legislators bitterly denounced mine chieftain John L. Lewis for calling a walkout in the captive coal mines...
...about eight weeks Speaker Rayburn had seen the recapture of 44 out of 65 Democrats who had opposed him in the conscription fight; he had gained 23 precious Republican votes. And he knew, as well as Republican Leader Joe Martin, that many a Republican vote against the present bill was a matter of party loyalty, since the G.O.P. in Congress had decided to make the measure an out-&-out partisan fight...