Word: rayburnisms
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...argument had ceased. Speaker Rayburn and his aides-tall, slack-jawed John McCormack of Massachusetts, the majority leader, and round-shouldered, wavy-haired Pat Boland of Pennsylvania, the whip-had done all they could. They had made frantic telephone calls to Democratic leaders in more than a dozen States, begging for additional pressure on reluctant members. Some Democratic State chairmen came to town, bringing plums and whips. In Vichy the Government had delivered itself to Hitler that afternoon. The U.S. Government had just renewed a warning to Japan. But against the bill to keep the U.S. Army under arms...
...House, the bill's fate teetered on a narrow balance; if the bill were to be passed, the argument would have to be won. The House leaders faced up to their task with no great conviction. Only a month ago Speaker Sam Rayburn himself had stated that to keep the draftees past their year's enrollment was a breach of contract. Now he had changed his mind: he had been convinced that there was a national emergency; whether he could convince enough of his fellows remained to be seen. The Senate had beaten down attempts to make...
...news of that step came to the public when the President sent a message to Congress. The night before, the President had called seven Congressional leaders to a very secret conference at the White House-Senate Leader Barkley, Senators George (Foreign Relations) and Connally; Speaker Rayburn. Representatives McCormack (Majority Leader), Sol Bloom (Foreign Affairs) and Luther Johnson. The President, sitting back of his big desk in his upstairs study, was serious but in good humor, and he did most of the talking. He frankly admitted that he had taken a serious step and said he wanted to discuss it with...
Last week, with a foresight rare in U.S. military history, the army prepared to apply the awful test of war to U.S. officers before they actually go to battle. Said Under Secretary of War Robert Porter Patterson (in a letter to House Speaker Sam Rayburn): "It is imperative that during the emergency the Secretary of War have authority to vitalize the active list of the Army, removing therefrom those officers who are unable to stand up under the strain to which they must be subjected if we are to build up a modern Army capable of meeting the demands...
...trim grey head. >> John L Lewis' maid refused to sit in a Jim Crow seat, got arrested, said "Mr. Lewis will fix you for this." >> Representative Clare Hoffman (R., Mich.) asked that "applause" (to his speech) be stricken from the Congressional Record "because there was none." Speaker Sam Rayburn suggested making such omissions permanent and universal. >> Eleanor Roosevelt offered to refund her half of a $1,000 fee (shared by her agent) for speaking at a Burlington, Vt. hospital benefit because the fee wiped out the benefit, but the sponsors declined. >> Franklin D. Roosevelt got a sore throat, cancelled...