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...Speaker. They wanted a hard-headed parliamentarian who could say "No" convincingly and whip an unwieldy Democratic majority into obedience. "Joe" Byrns, who was raised on a Tennessee farm and has spent 26 years as a Democratic wheelhorse in the House, did not fill those specifications. Texas' Representative Sam Rayburn became, in effect, the New Deal's candidate. Louis Howe was anxious to see him get the job and Vice President Garner sent a letter to the Texas delegation in the House urging them to vote for their colleague and his political protege. In addition two other serious contenders...
...confused with Sam Rayburn of Texas, Democratic Chairman of the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee...
...from the Federal Trade Commission but from Interstate Commerce Commissioner Walter Marshall William Splawn went a report to Congress last week on another kind of holding company-telephone & telegraph. Urging enactment of the Rayburn bill to establish a separate Federal Communications Commission, Dr. Splawn eyed the $5,000,000,000 American Telephone & Telegraph System with deep suspicion, recommended that it be investigated. His suspicions were based largely on his study of Associated Telephone Utilities Co., an independent about one-fiftieth the size of A. T. & T., now in receivership. ''What is disclosed by the examination of the Associated...
...able Texan, Chairman Buchanan of the Appropriations Committee, had already laid the ground work for handling the first Roosevelt budget which may set a peacetime record. Other Committee chairmen - Steagall of Banking & Currency, Jones of Agriculture, Sumners of Judiciary, Sam Rayburn of Interstate & Foreign Commerce - were last week all as busy as beavers putting together legislative ideas out of which President Roosevelt will take his pick on money, farm relief, liquor, transportation...
...misunderstanding between him and his Washington followers. To clear up difficulties and develop a Congressional program which might avert a special session after March, he had summoned to his Manhattan home Speaker Garner, Democratic Senate Leader Robinson, Senators Harrison, Pittman, Byrnes and Hull, Representatives Rainey, McDuffie, Collier, Byrns and Rayburn. Also on hand were Democratic Chairman Farley, Professor Moley of the "Brain Trust" and Col. Howe, the President-elect's alter...