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...three-week vacation from congressional worries, House Speaker Sam Rayburn heard some bad news from his home in Bonham, Texas: 5,000 bales of his summer hay, stored in a barn before it was cured, had caught fire by spontaneous combustion, burned down the barn, crop...
...vote of 265 to 109, the House whooped through the Walters bill, so neatly contrived and so solidly directed against the tendency of the Federal Government to grab everything in sight that many a land-locked Congressman found it hard to resist. The man behind it was Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas, and he was openly defying his great and good friend in the White House...
...Gossett, 49, seventh-term Congressman and a member of Speaker Sam Rayburn's loyal band of Texans, got up to make a speech about the underprivileged Congressman. Inflation had made it impossible, he explained sadly, for him to support his wife and five children on his $12,500 salary and $2,500 untaxed expense account. "If we would preserve America," he said, "our demands upon our elected representatives must be based upon the general welfare and not upon shortsighted selfishness." With that and his resignation on file, he said goodbye to the House and left for Texas, there...
...Where Are We At?" In the face of such opposition, Truman Democrats had neither the leadership nor the internal strength to do anything. The most astute Administration leader in Congress was 69-year-old Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas, who, besides having nothing to lead, was himself a political hybrid: half Fair Dealer, half Southern Democrat. Majority Leader McFarland in the Senate was no leader at all, nor was he undeviatingly loyal to the White House (see above). The regular Democrats had little control over committees, where legislation is corked up, or any real control over bills when they reached...
...Rayburn & Finch Show (Fri. 9 p.m., CBS) belongs in the radio comic tradition established years ago by such zany funnymen as the late Colonel Stoopnagle. After five years as Manhattan disc jockeys, Rayburn & Finch have come to their unsponsored network show with a handful of records, a good deal of acerbic humor and a better-than-usual collection of puns. Starting off with a fictitious award called a "Ludwig," from a fictitious radio & TV magazine called See Hear!, the comics go on to rib educational shows with "Science Speaks," a program designed to "push back the frontiers of science-right...