Word: speakers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...poof farm boy, and got the urge to make money. Frank went out, became one of Alabama's biggest lumber and turpentine tycoons, and made himself a few million. Or like the other day, when he got the idea he should do something for his old pal, Speaker Sam Rayburn...
...self-made businessman, a graduate of Harvard Law School, Gabrielson is 58, a calm, pipe-smoking conservative. He served four terms in the New Jersey state legislature, became speaker of the assembly, ran the state campaigns in 1936 and 1940. He supported Ohio's Bob Taft last year, was later peeved by Dewey's do-nothing campaign. He insists, however, that he will be neutral on the job: "The chairman's job is to elect candidates, not select them...
...Speaker Sam Rayburn, who rarely speaks out any more, stood solemnly before the House, shaking his bald dome and searching for the right words. "I fear," he said, "I am speaking to minds that are closed." It is only reasonable, he pleaded, to give a far-reaching legislative idea a fair trial. Though popular Sam Rayburn has immense prestige, the Congressmen listened coldly. Seeing them unmoved, Sam made a brazen appeal to the patronage instinct: "Let me say to you, my Democratic friends, that I found out a long time ago that in this House the people get along...
...nothing the Speaker could do or say was going to save Harry Truman from another defeat. The rebellious House was out to kill the Administration's spectacular Brannan farm plan (TIME, April 18). And to make the chase more annoying, some of Sam Rayburn's most stalwart followers were leading the posse...
...stoning of Stephen and the crucifixion of Christ on what he called "the attorney generals" of that day. David Gilbert Logan of Liverpool interrupted to assert that the persecutors of Christ and Stephen were "proper Communist gangs." Outraged members wanted to shut off Willie's blasphemy, but the speaker ruled regretfully: "I do not think there is any rule which makes it out of order, but I must say it fills me with disgust." After almost seven hours of debate the House voted, 412 to 4, to extend the government's emergency powers for a month...