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Under pressure from 0PM the Senate killed the amendment as unanimously as the House had passed it. Main reason: general agreement that the military must have only powers of specification, not of full priorities. Speaker Sam Rayburn busied himself with ways & means to save the House's red face when the matter came up in conference...
...canny little Speaker Sam Rayburn had done a shrewd job. The bill passed with only face-saving amendments, put in to salve Congressmen frightened by dictatorship-bogies. Rayburn had evaluated the high talk of compromise with absolute accuracy. He knew that the Republicans who talked loudest about unity, about unanimous agreement if concessions were made, were pledged to vote against the bill no matter what its final form...
Time, and Mr. Pace's sentiments, worked for Franklin Roosevelt and his bill. Congressional mail had dropped way off; all the other bogey-bills had drawn much heavier mailbags. The House attention stayed on Sam Rayburn and on tall, balding Republican James Wolcott Wadsworth of Geneseo, N. Y.-who made the best House speech of the week, merely pleading for a unity of purpose in grave times...
...Congressman Sam Rayburn's insistence, he got out of bed, where he had been nursing a cold, dressed, put on his best face and held a conference with House and Senate leaders in his second-floor study. They had come to discuss with Mr. Roosevelt H.R. 1776, the Lend-Lease Bill (see p. 17). In the comfortable room at the White House, the argument came down to the kind of simple talk any U. S. citizen could understand. Present were Speaker Rayburn, Senators Barkley and George, and Congressmen MacCormack, Bloom and Luther Johnson - and the two Republican leaders: Senator...
...first reaction to the President's Budget for the fiscal year 1941-42 came as a reading clerk in the House of Representatives droned: ". . . will cost about 17.5 billions of dollars." A Congressman whistled. Speaker Sam Rayburn pounded his gavel. The clerk droned...