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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Admiral Nimitz, General Eisenhower, Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, former Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Oct. 31, 1949 | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...then that the Administration devised a new strategy suggested by canny old Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn: 1) keep Congress in session, let it talk itself out, hold its nose to the grindstone, and blame Republican obstructionism for Congress' inaction; 2) let Congress know that if it got down to work on what was left of the Truman program, it could go home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Record | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...answer to the Senators, but the House wasn't listening. Since the Senate wouldn't agree to a formal adjournment, the House had another out: it would simply start a series of three-day recesses, which require no Senate approval. For the next four weeks. Speaker Sam Rayburn announced, only a corporal's guard would need to stay in town-someone to act as Speaker, a functionary to parade the mace (which is the symbol of House authority), and someone to move adjournment every day after the journal has been approved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Year-Round Job | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

Vainly, Speaker Sam Rayburn got down on the floor himself to plead for "the whole loaf, not half a loaf." Such economizing, Rayburn cried, was just another sample of the "same caution, the same hesitation, the same wait-awhile" of prewar isolationism. "There's more talk around here about Communism, but it's a funny thing that when we start to do something about it those speaking the loudest against Communism are found wanting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Half a Loaf | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

...Heart of Texas. The microphone suddenly was silent. "The damned thing's dead," shouted the host, but he went on anyway. "Sam Rayburn is a great man; he has a heart as big as the state of Texas." Some big brass-Chief Justice Fred Vinson, Justice-to-be Tom Clark, Attorney General-to-be Howard McGrath -praised long and industriously the long and illustrious career of Texas' Sam Rayburn. Sam himself stood up to speak modestly of his past and express hope that "our ancient institutions of freedom could meet their new challenge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAPITAL: Love Feast | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

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