Word: rayburns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Same day, the House Democratic caucus produced similar results. Bald, tough Speaker Sam Rayburn spoke a piece: Hereafter Congress would exercise a more potent and compelling voice in Government. But the Speaker carefully excluded the President from any criticism...
...Rayburn Reelected. Next day the House reinstalled Sam Rayburn as Speaker (the vote: 217-10-206). Joe Martin made a little speech congratulating the Speaker. Said he: "The last Congress might well be called the War Congress, but this Congress will be the Victory Congress. . . . [We are going] to see this war to a successful, decisive and early end. As leader of the opposition we pledge our earnest and untiring efforts to that...
...Speaker Rayburn's reply struck the keynote of the session...
...Another birthday, Sam Rayburn's, was celebrated at a White House surprise party for the Speaker on Wednesday. Rayburn was 61, just 24 days older than the President...
...fighting speech in his fighting home State of Texas, House Speaker Sam Rayburn let a secret out of the bag: the U.S. was producing over 3,300 planes a month...