Word: speakered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wave of laughter swept over the sweltering press conference, and the President himself had to control a grin before answering; coming from Constant Critic McClendon, a staunch friend of House Speaker Sam Rayburn, the question was akin to awarding Ike the ears and tail of a brave but lifeless bull...
James B. Conant, President Emeritus of Harvard (picture at the right) will be the featured speaker this evening at the "Annual Harvard Summer School Conference on Educational Administration," to be held today and tomorrow. The conference theme is "Another Look at The Secondary School," and Mr. Conant will discuss "What I Saw and What I Forsee in the Secondary School...
...through the Senate a proposed tax-cut program (repeal of the 4% forgiveness on dividends, repeal of Korean war excise taxes on travel, telephones, etc.), calculated to impress the voters and embarrass the Administration. Then, before Long's very eyes, the long arms of Lyndon Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn reached into the meeting of Senate-House conferees to compromise away all that had been fought for, and simply extend the taxes for another year...
Under the clouds last week: ¶ The Congress appropriated $6 billion in three bills-for the Agriculture, Commerce, State and Justice departments-shaving off $162 million from the President's requests. ("They say we are budget busters and big spenders," raged House Speaker Rayburn in a rare public outburst, "and all the time we are cutting down on their bills. I don't understand it.") In the $4.6 billion farm-appropriation bill, both houses voted a ceiling on individual farm subsidies to put a stop to subsidy millionaires, but in the final maneuvering it was raised from...
Boosted and backed by New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, a young lawyer who lives in a split-level home in a New York City suburb won election last week as speaker of the New York state assembly, ending the traditional hold (69 years) of powerful upstate G.O.P. forces on the job. Popular, hard-working Winner Joseph F. Carlino, 42, is the son of an Italian politician who quit Tammany