Word: rayburns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that high concept there can be no end save victory." The President handed Messrs. Garner and Rayburn each a formal presentation copy of the speech, shook their hands, walked slowly down the ramp from the rostrum. The crowd still stood outside the Capitol a little while after he had driven away...
...legislative body. In a constant babble-bedlam, members took the oath and went through the routine of organizing. On one side of the centre aisle sat 162 Republicans, two less than last year; on the other, 268 Democrats. Only time there was silence was when Texas' Sam Rayburn, elected Speaker by virtue of the Democratic majority, rose to speak. Rayburn declared...
...Militant Aid to Britain group announced last night that its petition with 560 signatures asking Congress for immediate aid to Great Britain, was presented to Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the House of Representatives, in Washington during vacation...
Pining for a sight of the Shorthorn cattle on his Texas ranch, bald Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the House, sighed: "I want to go home so bad I can taste it." His only worry was whether he could round up a quorum to vote adjournment. Many a Congressman had already slipped away, would hate to plod back just for the formality of a vote. If he did not get his quorum, the 76th Congress, still technically in session, might, like the hunters of the boojum, softly and silently vanish away...
...Smith Wildman Brookhart introduced the Senate's first anti-block booking bill. Last of 17 successors-none of which passed-was the third Neely Bill. Movie lobbyists kept it at bay until 1939, when the Senate jammed it through in two days. Hollywood lobbyists quaked when Sam Rayburn, Democratic House leader, objected to Frank Capra's biting Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, blurted, "It won't do the movies any good." Nevertheless they stopped the Neely Bill in the House...