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Farlier, Rep. Richard Bolling (D-Mo.) told the Young Democrats that McCormack was "one of the dukes" that run the House and does not have the great personal power which the late Sam Rayburn acquired because of his long tenure...
Window in the Eye. Dr. Kaufman decided to try 5-iodo-2´-deoxyuridine (or IDU), a close chemical kin to 5-fluoro-2´-deoxyuridine (or FUDR ), one of the drugs given to House Speaker Sam Rayburn in his last illness. These chemicals were developed in the hope that cancer cells would be fooled into using them instead of normal metabolic building blocks, which they closely resemble. Dr. Kaufman reasoned that cells invaded by viruses might react the same way, and thus be saved from helping the virus to reproduce...
...House, Mills displayed an aptitude for financial facts and figures, earned appointment to the Ways and Means Committee and, in 1958, became its chairman. He was then considered a prime favorite to succeed Speaker Sam Rayburn, even though he had signed a widely publicized Southern Manifesto of white supremacy, which eventually cost him the favor of Northern Democrats. But his performance as chairman of Ways and Means has not lived up to its promise. A naturally cautious, conciliatory man, Mills let his committee dawdle endlessly over legislation, to the point that it was nicknamed the "No Ways...
Democratic and Republican leaders in the House of Representatives are nearing agreement on a plan (that had once been resisted by the late Speaker Sam Rayburn) to increase House membership from 435 to 439. The change would help solve prickly line-drawing problems in Illinois, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania by giving each of those states, plus Missouri, one more Representative than they were allotted after the 1960 census...
Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg, an obese Lutheran minister, was the first Speaker of the House of Representatives and the first functioning head of the U.S. Government; he presided over the 65-member House in New York for a month before President George Washington was inaugurated. Sam Rayburn of Texas served longer as Speaker than any other man: 16 years. From Muhlenberg to McCormack. 45 have ruled as Speakers of the House (one lasted just one day). Some were great men, many were toadies and sycophants, a few were colorful despots. Among the outstanding Speakers...