Word: rayburnisms
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...seemed to many Congressmen at the end of the 1958 session that the man most likely to succeed Texas' 77-year-old Sam Rayburn as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives was Arkansas' courtly, bass-voiced Wilbur Daigh Mills. With his combination of brains, earnestness and Southern charm. Mills was liked and respected on both sides of the aisle. Two years ago, at 48, he became the youngest chairman in the history of Congress' most important committee, tax-writing Ways & Means, and he showed promise of being a great one. He already knew more about...
...Democrat Carl Elliott. A step beyond the Shelley bill, it imposed some restrictions on blackmail picketing and secondary boycotts, in addition to requiring financial disclosure. Closest to the Senate's Kennedy-Erwin Labor bill (TIME, May 4), it was supported by the Democratic House leadership under Speaker Sam Rayburn...
Jimmy Hoffa himself came through swimmingly. At a dinner for his 400 lobbyists, he promised to "elect" a Congress that would dance to Teamster pipes. When he heard this, Missouri's Democrat Clarence Cannon, who had pledged his vote to Sam Rayburn, announced that he would have to vote for Landrum-Griffin...
...other side of-the fight, Sam Rayburn's top lieutenant, Missouri's Richard Bolling, based his strategy on a civil-rights sleeper that had somehow slipped unnoticed into the Landrum-Griffin bill. The Southern conservatives would never vote for a bill containing such a clause. If Bolling could keep his civil-rights ploy undiscovered until past the parliamentary deadline for amendments, he could then reveal its presence and split the ranks of Southern conservatives. Craftily, Rayburn's strategists laid a booby trap for Southerners who were routinely hunting for civil-rights hookers by leaking a phony...
Then trouble flared up where Sam Rayburn should least expect it-deep in the heart of his own 20-man Texas delegation. The pro-Ike mail from home was building up tremendous pressure, and much as they hated to leave their old leader, many Texans were thinking of defection. Their dilemma was compounded by another Texan, Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, who warned Mister Sam that for Texans to vote for anything less than the toughest possible labor bill would ruin them back home. Inevitably, word filtered out, and one by one the Texans made their decisions...