Word: rayburnisms
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...Washington the word seeped out that Speaker Sam Rayburn, permanent chairman of the last three Democratic National Conventions, will not accept that honorific spot again at next July's convention in Los Angeles. The chairman, Mister Sam feels, should be conspicuously neutral, and Rayburn's own all-out support of Fellow Texan Lyndon Johnson's presidential ambitions rules...
...Anderson's success as Treasury Secretary is that, in vivid contrast with his outspoken, impatient predecessor, he stays on good terms with the Democratic majority on Capitol Hill. In this he has an accident of geography going for him: Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn are both Texans. Rayburn, an old and trusted friend, was the first man to hear about Texan Anderson's painful decision in 1952 to bolt the Democrats and vote for Eisenhower. Anderson keeps in close touch with the leaders, tells them in detail about his plans and programs...
...Stuart Symington was marching through Georgia, booked solidly ahead for shooting matches from Massachusetts to Florida over the next weeks. Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey scored an unexpected bull's-eye with the United Auto Workers in Atlantic City, pushed on to Denver. In Dallas, House Speaker Sam Rayburn, who customarily presides over the Democratic Convention, nominated fellow Texan Lyndon Johnson for his presidential candidate. Illinois' Adlai Stevenson held court with visiting politicos but maintained an inscrutable silence at his Libertyville home. California's Governor
When the New Deal asked Congress to regulate the nation's stock exchanges in 1934, Wall Street and leading industrialists fought the bill with such fervor that Texas Democrat Sam Rayburn called their opposition "the most powerful lobby ever organized against any bill which ever came up in Congress." Last week, as the Securities and Exchange Commission celebrated its 25th anniversary, the SEC was as accepted in Wall Street as the Stock Exchange, got due credit for helping raise the standards of stock trading and corporate financing to the highest in the world. But there were still complaints. They...
...closer with the President than their predecessors. One consequence was a renewal of the Republican and Southern Democrat coalition. The Democratic leadership found its problem in controlling the Southerners rather than the ineffective liberals. Judge Howard Smith of Virginia retained his arbitrary direction of the House Rules Committee despite Rayburn's pledge to control him. And Johnson was unable to keep his promise of a civil rights bill...