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...Rayburn declared he could tie things up for two weeks with stalling tactics. That would mean wrecking the G. O. P. high command's plans for Congress to adjourn Saturday...
Democratic leader Rayburn chilled talk of a House investigation. Belligerently, the Texan told the chamber that if any such effort developed he would try to block and delay all other legislation...
...Rayburn's stand tossed the matter right back to the Senate and Senator Wherry of Nebraska, the Republican whip, said that chamber might be held in session all night in an effort to get action...
...must by law,* the House first picked up the challenge flung by Harry Truman. Its first item of business was the President's veto of the tax-cut bill (TIME, June 23), which House Republicans were determined to override. They got a shock. Democratic Leader Sam Rayburn had done a fast job of rounding up diffident Democrats. He had also corralled two rebel Republicans-Wisconsin's stolid ex-Progressive, Merlin Hull, and Minnesota's sharp-faced Carl Anderson. When the vote was counted, and breathlessly recounted, Hull and Anderson represented the margin of Administration victory. If they...
...Republican Congressman J. Edgar Chenoweth: "I should think that you who are trying to get us into World War III would have the decency to wait until we get back the bodies of the 300,000 boys killed in World War II." Boomed Democratic Minority Leader Sam Rayburn: "God help us, God help this world, if we do not accept our responsibility to help countries who do not want to be smothered by Communism...