Word: rayburnisms
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...Conferred at length with Vice President-elect Henry A. Wallace; then the Cabinet; then with five Cabinet members, Defense Chief Knudsen, Senators Barkley, Connally, Harrison and George, Representatives Rayburn, McCormack and Bloom, Luther Johnson and Treasury Counsel Edward H. Foley Jr. Subject: new lend-lease bill to aid Britain without limit...
...that high concept there can be no end save victory." The President handed Messrs. Garner and Rayburn each a formal presentation copy of the speech, shook their hands, walked slowly down the ramp from the rostrum. The crowd still stood outside the Capitol a little while after he had driven away...
...legislative body. In a constant babble-bedlam, members took the oath and went through the routine of organizing. On one side of the centre aisle sat 162 Republicans, two less than last year; on the other, 268 Democrats. Only time there was silence was when Texas' Sam Rayburn, elected Speaker by virtue of the Democratic majority, rose to speak. Rayburn declared...
...Militant Aid to Britain group announced last night that its petition with 560 signatures asking Congress for immediate aid to Great Britain, was presented to Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the House of Representatives, in Washington during vacation...
Pining for a sight of the Shorthorn cattle on his Texas ranch, bald Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the House, sighed: "I want to go home so bad I can taste it." His only worry was whether he could round up a quorum to vote adjournment. Many a Congressman had already slipped away, would hate to plod back just for the formality of a vote. If he did not get his quorum, the 76th Congress, still technically in session, might, like the hunters of the boojum, softly and silently vanish away...