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Finally, shiny-pated Speaker Sam Rayburn, who has a Texan's distaste for FEPC itself, brushed aside two more Southern appeals for adjournment and ordered the District of Columbia Committee to call up any measures it had on tap. If it had none, FEPC supporters would be next at bat-and that was precisely what the Dixie-controlled District Committee wanted to avoid. For the rest of the day its members kept the House in meandering debate on the question of incorporating the Girl Scouts, enlivening the discussion occasionally with a few bitter sideswipes at FEPC...
...their gross income for "depletion," a kindly gesture which permits them not only to make huge fortunes but keep them. Now that there is plenty of oil, President Truman has asked Congress to plug the income-tax loophole -but powerful Texans like Speaker Sam Rayburn oppose any change...
...punish an employer for discrimination in hiring because of race or religion-was an issue, but it came no nearer to a vote. It was a performance that reflected little credit on either party, for both have endorsed FEPC in their platforms. Even before the debate began, Speaker Sam Rayburn of Bonham, Texas let it be known that he would do his considerable best to keep FEPC from reaching the House floor. His excuse was that the bitter struggle over changing the House rules (TIME, Jan. 30) had not left the "right atmosphere" for another wrenching controversy. When FEPC came...
Leaving his seat on the Speaker's dais, Texas' Sam Rayburn stepped down on the floor for one of his infrequent speeches. "Who won the election in 1948 anyhow?" he demanded. Actually, shrewd Sam Rayburn was in a bit of a spot himself. If Goober Cox failed, the FEPC bill might be called up, which wouldn't help Sam Rayburn in his Texas constituency. Under the present rules, any committee chairman can bring his bill to the floor after the Rules Committee has sat on it for 21 days...
Barkley in unabashed and happy rebuttal. "Since I got married, such people as Clark Gable, Mayor O'Dwyer, Dick Tracy, Miss America and even the Methodist bishop* who married us have caved in-and I don't believe Sam Rayburn can resist much longer...