Word: sam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House side, Speaker Sam Rayburn, his battle gorge up, decided to contest the presidential veto without even consulting House Agriculture Committee Chairman Harold Cooley, who was back home in North Carolina. While Rayburn knew that he could not get the two-thirds vote necessary to override the veto, he felt sure that he could win the simple majority necessary to show that Ike was flouting the clear will of Congress. But Mister Sam's famed political antenna wasn't working...
Known Devil. The leadership crisis extended even to Congress, generally considered the hard core of Democratic strength. The President's veto of the natural-gas bill last February was a blow to the prestige of those leading Texans, House Speaker Sam Rayburn and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson. And Rayburn's fumble in bringing the farm-bill veto to a House' vote last week undermined what had seemed to be the party's most promising issue. Even if the Democrats pick up farm votes, there is still the civil-rights issue-on which congressional Democrats...
...caucus of Republican members. "We simply cannot send this bill to the President," Massachusetts' gnarled Joe Martin told the waverers among his colleagues. "It's a bad bill, and I'm sure he won't accept it." On the other side, Texas' egg-bald Sam Rayburn and other Democratic leaders were telling the doubtful among the Democrats that the bill might provide the only way to get a Democrat elected President in November. A key proposition in the Democratic reasoning: if Congress should pass the bill and the President should veto it (as many Democrats...
Guys and Dolls. Sam Goldwyn's adaptation of the Broadway musical; with Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Elaine and plenty of moxie (TIME...
...first boat will rely largely on Sam Williams, who got his rowing experience at Groton. Williams will pull the number seven oar. The rest of the crew's membership had been very uncertain until quite recently, but now it appears that Leavitt has found, by a painful trial-and-error process, the right combination to row the first boat...