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...many another strong Speaker before him. Polk was the only Speaker who advanced to the Presidency, but Clay, Elaine, Reed, Champ Clark, Jack Garner and others had Presidential or Vice Presidential ambitions. It so happens that by 1944 the South's Sam Rayburn, a solid, middle-of-the-roader, a man who can placate Congress, may be just the kind of running mate Franklin Roosevelt desires. In that case, Term IV may be Sam's first -in a different...
...elected Governor for the third term with a whopping majority, was in shape to challenge Taft's hold on the Ohio delegation two years hence. Besides, politically wise Robert Taft saw brewing a clash between liberal and Old Guard wings of G.O.P.-a confirmed middle-of-the-roader like John Bricker could maybe line up the in-betweens and the Old Guard, keep Robert Taft out of the cold...
...between the Old Guard and the Willkieites in the Republican Party fizzled. At its meeting in St. Louis this week, the G.O.P. National Committee picked as its chairman Iowa's greying, thick-jowled Harrison Earl Spangler, 63, dirt farmer, county seat lawyer, and an avowed middle-of-the-roader...
...administer the new anti-inflation program, as Director of Economic Stabilization, the President chose shrewd, wiry Jimmy Byrnes, 63, a hale good fellow who was one of the smoothest politicians on Capitol Hill before he moved up to the Supreme Court last year. Byrnes is a middle-of-the-roader who can get along with men of all beliefs; he knows when to hold his tongue; he is an expert at finding the common denominator...
Then the House Judiciary Committee is expected to consider two bills: 1) one sponsored by Oklahoma's young middle-roader Mike Monroney, 2) one sponsored by Pennsylvania's youngish conservative Francis Walter. The Monroney bill is Arnold's baby, would specifically permit prosecution of labor racketeers, would let the Justice Department move in on cutthroat jurisdictional strikes, would outlaw many a nefarious-but-usual labor practice. The Walter bill, even tougher, would permit injunction suits by any person "affected, injured, or threatened with injury" by objectionable union practices...