Word: sam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Important Key. Democratic Congressional Leaders Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn had already agreed on their general policy: they would wait for the Eisenhower Administration to present its program, deal with the proposals pretty much on their merits, hold off until 1958 (an election year) before unwrapping their own party-labeled legislative package. The Republicans faced a sterner test of congressional leadership. If the 1956 elections proved nothing else, they showed that the G.O.P. cannot depend even upon Ike's popularity to give it control of Congress; the key to an improved Republican congressional electoral showing lies in an improved...
...from Miskolc," said the stranger. "We escaped yesterday morning, just before the Russian tanks closed in. My name's on the police list. In the name of Hungary, let us hide here!" By this time, everybody could see it was Sam Lawrence, editor in a publishing firm. He kept sneaking a look at the script he had in his hand, but he was grim about his part...
After a while Gifford Proctor changed his mind. "You'll save us?" asked Sam Lawrence. "No." said Gifford quietly, "it's we who will be saved." The "Hungarians" were hustled off behind the altar then, and the people in St. Matthew's raised their Christmas voices in Gloria in Excelsis...
...Texas rasped the reply of House Speaker Sam Rayburn: It would be "a mistake" for House leadership to "work with any committee outside the House of Representatives." A brief three days later drawled the final word from Senate Ma jority Leader Lyndon Johnson: "The necessity of dealing with an additional committee not created by federal law before taking action would only cause delays and confusion...
...other words, Sam Rayburn, 74, and Lyndon Johnson, 48, are running the Democratic Party in the U.S. Congress...