Word: sam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Capitol Hill, Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn head what appears to be a serene Democratic household, sitting by comfortably while the Republicans spat. But west of the Potomac, Democrats are becoming the party of bitterness, much of it directed squarely at the congressional leadership's budget feud with Eisenhower. For a fresh political survey, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Democratic Split...
...Said the Senate's No. 2 Democrat, Montana's Mike Mansfield: "For the first time in years the foreign-aid program has been presented in a form that looks manage able and salable." Minnesota's Fair-Dealing Hubert Humphrey was "delighted" with the message. House Speaker Sam Rayburn (who had brushed off Ike's State of the Union message last January as "one of those kind-of-usual things") called it "great," volunteered that he was going to back "a very generous appropriation" for foreign aid. Indiana Republican Homer Capehart, who has voted against foreign...
...This program," wrote Freeman, "is of utmost importance to insure our safety and to promote the prospects for peace in the U.S. and the world." Governor Freeman was not the only Democratic leader upset by the budget-slashing direction of the 85th Congress under Texas Democrats Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn. In nearly every state outside the South, top Democrats viewed with anguish and anger the party record being written by the 85th Congress. Reason: the Johnson-Rayburn emphasis on budget cutting means hacking away at programs for which the national Democratic Party has long stood...
...SAM G. DUNN...
...shields) that telescoped one inside the other like a nest of cups; they were trip-hammered into the loft. wall that separated Benny from his rescuers. At 7:32 p.m., 23 hours and 48 minutes after Benny had plunged down the well, a wiry Negro construction worker named Sam Woodson wormed through the narrow pipe and touched Benny's hand. It was cold as death. Then, as Woodson scrabbled at the imprisoning sand, the boy groaned. Woodson pillowed Benny on his chest and was dragged back out of the pipe by his ankles. The incredulous...