Word: rayburns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...before a heap of ten-cent-store toys and a big pink and gold cake topped by three candles. He puffed once and blew them out. The 70-odd guests-the Cabinet, some of the Supreme Court, the White House guard and their wives-applauded happily. House Speaker Sam Rayburn proposed a toast (in domestic champagne) to the future...
...Presented the annual $10,000 Collier's magazine awards for "distinguished congressional service" to Democratic Speaker Sam Rayburn and Republican Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg. (Rayburn gave his prize money to his home town of Bonham, Tex. for a library; Vandenberg gave his to the Park Congregational Church of Grand Rapids, Mich, as a memorial to his mother...
...about getting the Truman program through Congress, and wants to reward at least the milder Dixiecrats: Harry Truman needs their votes in Congress. Last week the two factions took their problems to the White House, accompanied by Vice President Alben Barkley, House Majority Leader John McCormack and Speaker Sam Rayburn. When they emerged, McGrath blandly assured newsmen that Congressmen's "loyalty will be judged back in their home districts," not by their voting record in Congress...
...Board of Education. Later in the day he made another quiet pilgrimage to Capitol Hill. He walked into the office of Speaker Sam Rayburn at 5:25. It was the time, almost to the minute, that he had crossed its threshold four years before and had been told to call the White House. This time he was not interrupted, and spent 55 minutes with the "Board of Education" crowd, a group of congressmen and employees who drop in on the Speaker for a quiet drink every day after Congress recesses...
Instead, the curtain had gone up on a slow first act in which Speaker Sam Rayburn and Majority Leader Scott Lucas had run off one or two minor legislative routines. The pace should have been brisk; it was slow, and as the act proceeded, it got slower. That could be explained by the necessity of getting things organized. But the author, for one, believed that the trouble might be deeper than that. Last week he sailed on stage to charge that someone, in fact, had rewritten part of his show...