Word: rayburns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clothes, his shrewd, warm eyes downcast, his bald head shining dully in the soft glow from the vast skylight. Inches from his right hand was the gavel, the symbol of the authority he would now wield as Speaker of the House, until death or defeat of the Democrats. Sam Rayburn, 58, of Bonham, Tex., bachelor, shorthorn breeder, and for seven years a moderator of the New Deal, was waiting to speak his piece...
...Rayburn cleared his throat and spoke quietly. In the still chamber, its customary bedlam hushed, his voice came nervously, stiff with emotion. He ended...
...commanding presence. He was ill (heart trouble) when he stepped up from the Majority Leadership to succeed the late Speaker Joe Byrns of Tennessee. Yet he had to shepherd much unruly legislation through the House, keep a restive majority in hand (with the aid of Majority Leader Sam Rayburn who was elected his successor just before the state funeral in the House Chamber) at a time when impatience with Congress, impatience with the delays natural to democracy, was seeping through the U. S. Withal he sponsored some legislation of his own (cotton control, farm-tenant aid, soldiers' rehabilitation). Loyal...
...Senators and Representatives, only two are now close to the President. They are: South Carolina's canny, catch-as-catch-can Senator Jimmy Byrnes; Texas' steady, durable Sam Rayburn. Nebraska's Norris has slowed with age; Wisconsin's La Follette is too isolationist (and for that reason may not have the badly needed support of the White House in his race for re-election this fall). Among the so-called New Deal "militants" in the Senate (Minton, Lee, Pepper, Wagner) not one has the force & fury to attract Franklin Roosevelt. But there is another reason...
Safely returned to Congress were Senator Tom Connally, Representatives Martin Dies, Wright Patman, Richard Kleberg, Sam Rayburn and Lindley Beckworth, 27-year-old "Baby of Congress...