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...only the first week of the session. On the eve of election year, with politics weighing more day by day, in a House almost equally divided between Democrats and Republicans, anything can happen. To prevent anything disastrous happening to the Democrats is one job of Texas' Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn, 42d Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives...
...Rayburn has a greater responsibility: to guide, shepherd and rule the sometimes unruly 435 Representatives of the U.S. people...
...head. Chunky, balding, cigar-smoking Cecil Bunyan Dickson is 44, a onetime cowboy, soda jerk, Marine, A.P.man, I.N.S.man and, until he took his new job, chief reporter of the Chicago Sun's Washington bureau. He is a Texas-minded John Garner man, a great friend of Speaker Sam Rayburn, and the tough, independent kind of reporter who never trades news...
...message went up, Jimmy Byrnes phoned rangy John McCormack, Majority Leader, told him to get set for a veto of the Commodity Credit Corp. bill, which prohibited the use of subsidies to roll back food prices. Immediately the House strategists conferred, under the prism-hung chandelier in Speaker Sam Rayburn's ornate office. Telegrams were hurried off to more than 50 absentees, mostly in the big cities along the Atlantic seaboard. Members of the House Whip organization streamed in, got a broad sketch of the veto message, were told to go to work on Republicans and Democrats alike with...
...House stood, gave President Barclay a good hand as he walked to the dais. Introduced by Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas, he spoke for a minute and a half, shook hands with the Speaker, departed...