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This fight in Texas is separating the men from the boys. Governor Shivers, with his million-dollar farms and all, is proving to be just an office boy for the oil cartel and the big rich. The men, like Sam Rayburn and Wright Patman, are standing up for the people...
...supported Tom Dewey in 1944 and Harry Truman in 1948, came out for Eisenhower. ¶At Uvalde, Tex., old (83) John Nance Garner took his first public political stand since he retired as Vice President in 1941. He scrawled a note to House Speaker Sam Rayburn, leader of the Texas "loyalists" : "I will vote the Democratic ticket straight...
...Last week the Democratic National Committee, facing up to the danger, named House Speaker Sam Rayburn to lead the Texas campaign for Stevenson and Sparkman...
...Shivers-Daniels defection brought swift reaction from Democratic loyalists. Speaker of the "House Sam Rayburn announced that he was going to stump the state for Stevenson as did U.S. Senator Lyndon Johnson...
After Stevenson finished his speech, he withdrew for a little serious politicking. In a low-ceilinged room behind the rostrum, the candidate and the President gathered with Democratic leaders to pick a Veep. The others present: Illinois' ex-Senator Scott Lucas, House Majority Leader John McCormack, Sam Rayburn, National Committee Chairman Frank McKinney, Jack Arvey...