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Texas' Sam Rayburn, House Speaker, at a Joplin, Mo. rally where he explained away his own 1948 and 1952 efforts to make Eisenhower a Democratic President : "I said Eisenhower was a good man, but I've felt since his hassle with the 83rd Republican Congress [1953-54], he has gone sour...
...Jackson, Miss. House Speaker Sam Rayburn, a Texas Democrat who had spent years trying to make the Democratic tent big enough for both North and South, refused to discuss segregation ("I don't think it would be helpful to talk about it"), attempted to turn the anger of 800 fund-raising Democrats against Republicans. The Mississippians refused to be distracted, gave their biggest applause to the cry of State Chairman Bidwell Adams: "I want to tell the honorable Speaker and everyone else that I am not a milk-chocolate Democrat. I am an old-line Democrat...
...Kennedy-Ives bill. Many Democrats thought that it was too strong; most Republicans considered it too weak. But as labor's mess loomed high on the list of political issues for this fall's campaign, Republicans could point to the fact that it was House Speaker Sam Rayburn who had sat on the Kennedy-Ives bill for "40 days and 40 nights," thereby ruling out any real chance of its passing. The Republicans could also campaign on the fact that House Democrats had shelved a G.O.P. labor bill, stronger than Kennedy-Ives and supported by President Eisenhower...
After House Republicans recently blocked a Democratic farm bill that called for high supports on corn, cotton and rice, Speaker Sam Rayburn angrily announced that no farm legislation would be forthcoming this session. Growled he: "We have been up and down this hill as many times as I care to go." But last week Mr. Sam was up the hill again, pushed there by political pressure from Southern planters, who knew that congressional failure to pass a farm bill would mean automatic cutbacks in next year's acreage allotments. The House, following Mr. Sam to the hilltop, last week...
...House, after complicated wrangling, scheduled a vote this week on the Kennedy-Ives labor bill (which neither party likes). Speaker Rayburn set the vote to shift blame for inaction on the bill from Democratic shoulders to Republican, i.e., he would blame the G.O.P. when a motion to suspend rules and take up Kennedy-Ives failed (as expected) to carry a two-thirds vote. To keep blame where it is now, Republicans introduced a new labor bill, prepared to vote against Kennedy-Ives, figured the new bill was a better explanation for doing so. ¶ Indiana's caveman Senator William...