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Next morning in Washington's Union Station his wife, a couple of grandchildren, his Secretary of State and Attorney General welcomed him back to the front of Political action. That afternoon he was closeted with Vice President Garner, Speaker Bankhead and Leader Rayburn of the House, Leader Robinson of the Senate. When they emerged Senator Robinson declared that the Sit-Down situation had passed its crisis. Mr. Garner said: "I am deaf, dumb and blind." Paterfamilias Roosevelt took his family to church on Easter, cast a beneficent smile on the Easter Monday egg-rolling for 53,000 children...
...Rayburn, Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, has been announced as the speaker for the third Langdell Hall Lecture to be held at 4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon in the Langdell Court Room. Professor Felix Frankfurter will introduce the speaker who will describe "How a Bill Is Passed Through Congress...
...prizes in a "better-selling contest" conducted by the New York Uni-versity School of Retailing. On hand to present the prizes was one of the contest's judges, Chairman Samuel Wallace Reyburn of Associated Dry Goods Corp. (not to be confused with the Texas Congressman, Sam Rayburn...
...caucus: "Gentlemen, the Bolsheviks of the type you mention will man every committee of this Congress long before the Republican party is returned to power under your leadership." Stormed Mr. Lemke: "I'm not begging anything from the damned reactionary Republicans." ¶ Speaker Bankhead, Majority Leader Rayburn, Majority Whip Pat Boland picked 15 assistant whips to help keep the 332 Democrats of the House in order. Rules given the subwhips: Four of them must be on the floor of the House at all sessions; all of them when important measures are under consideration; they must shush the Majority whenever...
...hours before he sent it to the Capitol (see p. 16). His third message, on Government Reorganization, which goes to Congress this week, required two preliminary sessions. Sunday afternoon he spent an hour and a half priming Vice President Garner, Senators Joe Robinson and Pat Harrison, Speaker Bankhead, Representatives Rayburn, Buchanan and Doughton on the Re-organization Plan so that they would be prepared to defend it from the first moment that opposition reared its ugly head...