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...leadership that brought Sam Rayburn through that crisis was grounded in experience: 31 years in the House (only two have served longer: Illinois's Sabath and North Carolina's Doughton) ; 25 years on the Interstate Commerce Committee (five as its chairman); and four years as majority leader before he ascended to the Speakership...
Where the draft was coming from no one could guess. In 1940 many an Administration bigwig, and some citizens, demanded that the President run again. This political year had seen the President drafted only by Illinois's aged (76) Representative Adolph J. Sabath (TIME, March 1) and by West Virginia's Governor Matthew M. Neely, overwhelmingly repudiated by his State's voters in last autumn's election and since defeated in his State Legislature on every turn...
Thus spoke Illinois's stanchly New Deal Representative Adolph J. Sabath last week, in an interview with the Chicago...
There had long been signs and portents that a Fourth Term movement was in the works; here was the first acknowledgment from a 100% New Dealer. Adolph Sabath, who plumped for Term III as far back as 1938, takes it for granted that Franklin Roosevelt is the best qualified man, and that he can be nominated and elected...
...Against. The line that Congressman Sabath was taking was too similar to that which preceded Term III to be overlooked. But if Franklin Roosevelt runs again, his opposition will be stronger than in 1940. One who has been laboring for months to block any attempt at Term IV is the man who twice put F.D.R. in the White House-James Aloysius Farley. Last week Jim Farley, who is both New York State Democratic Chairman and board chairman of Coca-Cola Export Corp., returned to Manhattan from a five-week "business trip." Along the way Jim Farley...