Word: rayburnisms
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...Senator, McConaughy liked the members of Congress, and they liked him. He averaged about five miles a day walking down congressional corridors into congressional offices, was a welcome guest in congressional homes, an after-hours regular in the private sanctums of Vice President Richard Nixon, House Speaker Sam Rayburn and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson. He played a leading part in covering the 1952 and 1956 presidential nominating conventions for TIME, crisscrossed the U.S. both before and during the campaigns. He dogged the footsteps of Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy for six years, and his work resulted in two memorable...
...expectant stillness, the silence of men aware that they are witnesses at a moment of history, gripped the House of Representatives one morning last week as members waited for Speaker Sam Rayburn to announce the result of the roll-call vote on the session's most important bill. "The yeas were 317," he intoned, "and the nays were 98." Members gasped and whistled: the House had passed the Administration's reciprocal trade bill by a surprisingly decisive margin...
...call on the Democratic party line brought Speaker Sam Rayburn out fast. Mr. Sam hurriedly rounded up the Democrats. He even took to the well of the House to enjoin one Democrat from going over to the G.O.P. side, exchanging finger-waggling arguments with Missouri's Democratic Clarence Cannon, a longtime rival of Carl Vinson's, who was voting with the Republicans on one amendment...
...turned up in out-of-the-way places, took surprising forms (including a jail). Items: ¶ The East Front of the U.S. Capitol (TIME, June u, 1956 et seq.), the traditional backdrop for presidential inaugurations. Architects and historians (keep it as it is) are lined up against Speaker Sam Rayburn and the Congress' Commission for the Extension of the Capitol (remodel it). Current status: inactive, with Capitol Architect J. George Stewart authorized to begin alterations, but no contracts let. ¶ Walnut Wood, the n 2-year-old Gothic Revival mansion in Bridgeport, Conn. (TIME, Oct. 21), designed by igth...
...horseplay with Alaska's Democratic Delegate E. L. ("Bob") Bartlett and with two engineers of the House victory: New York's Democrat Leo O'Brien and Pennsylvania's Republican John Saylor. It was Floor Manager O'Brien, counseled at every turn by Speaker Sam Rayburn, who had beaten back strong-willed opposition from Virginia's Democratic Howard Smith, chairman of the Rules Committee, and Minority Leader Joe Martin. "It's great, it's great," sighed the Governor. "I'm very happy for the people of Alaska...