Word: speakered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under the leadership of Charlie Halleck, party discipline is stricter than at any time since the regime of Illinois' tough, pink-bearded "Uncle Joe" Cannon (1903-1911 as Speaker). Sometimes Halleck goes too far. He admits that more than one Republican has been forced into line under threat of being cut off from party campaign funds. At least one Republican, pushed beyond endurance, had to be restrained from swinging on Halleck. Charlie Halleck recognizes the problem. "Some guys say I drive too hard," he says. "You've got to know when...
...political issue of the year had been set by Republican Dwight Eisenhower in his dedication to a balanced budget. Since the heavily Democratic 86th Congress convened in January, few of its members had been more restless within the restraints of the balanced-budget idea than House Speaker Sam Rayburn. He was plainly and openly chafing-and when Mister Sam chafes, he chafes hard. His best opportunity so far to tilt the Eisenhower budget came last week, when the House considered housing legislation. The result was one of the roughest and tumblingest congressional fights in a long while...
...birthday dinner in the home of Oklahoma's Senator Mike Monroney on Washington's 32nd Street. It was an amiable, comfortable evening, with little serious political shop talk. But as it neared an end, one Democratic patriarch turned to the patriarchal guest of honor. Said House Speaker Sam Rayburn, 77, to Harry Truman: "Let me drop you downtown." From that offer came a political compact, soon whispered among Democratic professionals, that, with a wild scramble for the Democratic presidential nomination in prospect for next year, could become one of the most important political developments...
Died. Oswald D. Heck, 57, popular, powerful, longtime (23 years) Republican speaker of the New York state assembly, who ruled the often unruly legislators with fair play and wit, pushed through controversial measures (State Commission Against Discrimination, compulsory auto insurance, Governor Nelson Rockefeller's tough tax program); of a heart attack; in Schenectady...
...province. Legally, this move seems inexcusable, since the action amounts to limiting freedom on mere suspicion of intention to advocate the overthrow of the government. However, under South Africa's Suppression of Communism Act and Riotous Assemblies Act, all things are possible. (Luthuli was scheduled to be the principle speaker at a mass meeting of the African National Congress on Saturday...