Word: sam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...virtually all the legislation handled so far, the 86th has started off as though prepared to go all the way in upsetting the budget, then had second thoughts and trimmed the spending to something fairly close to Administration requests. Just before Congress recessed last week, House Speaker Sam Rayburn let it be known that he was getting tired of the whole business. "If we cut a dollar below what [the Administration] wants," complained Mr. Sam, "it's like the heavens are going to fall. If we appropriate a dollar above their request, it's reckless and radical spending...
Your article about Farmer North is certainly a Horatio Alger story, but with subsidies and soil bank, are we sure he didn't have a helping hand from a rich relative-namely, Uncle Sam...
...Burns's strategy paid off. Alaska's victory softened almost all further opposition; even Sam Rayburn, long opposed to Hawaiian statehood, decided to go along. And even Virginia's stubborn Rules Committee Chairman Howard Smith had seen the handwriting on the bill, decided that he could not prevent its movement to the floor (TIME, March 16). Added to that was the momentum of the Senate's victory, planned by Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, who had even won over some Southern defectors (although not such diehards as Virginia's Harry Byrd, Mississippi's Jim Eastland...
...Saturday Show. A four-hour trip into the world of sound, with host Sam Smith...
...Saturday Show. A four-hour trip into the world of sound, with host Sam Smith...