Word: speakers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first issue in March 1923, signaling its purpose to the world, TIME carried on its cover the arresting face of the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, "Uncle Joe" Cannon of Illinois -last of the truly autocratic leaders of the House. This week TIME carries on its cover the face of the present Speaker of the House, Sam Rayburn of Texas. Also on the cover is the arresting face of another Cannon, Missouri's Clarence (no kin). With them are the three other individualistic legislative leaders who share, in the 86th Congress, the position of power once held...
Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson came the bitter charge that Ike's was "a political issue for 1960 . . . a propaganda budget'' that cannot be balanced out of current income. From the House, Speaker Sam Rayburn allowed that Ike's request for an increase in gasoline taxes (from 3? to 4½?) would get a "pretty cold reception." On the spend-and-spend side was a bulletin from the Democratic Advisory Council (Averell Harriman, Adlai Stevenson, Harry S. Truman, et al.) that damned the budget provisions as "weak and inadequate . . . Pocketbook before people . . . Close to being a fraud...
...sure he agrees wholly with you, you should refer to him as 'The able Senator from-.' But if you know there is violent disagreement on an issue, there is only one way to address him: The able and distinguished Senator, my friend from -.' " ¶ Democratic Speaker Sam Rayburn gaveled through two friendly relief measures for his longtime opposite number and friend, Joseph W. Martin Jr., ousted Republican Floor Leader (TIME, Jan. 19). The resolutions: authorization for Martin (as the only living former Speaker of the House) to keep the chauffeured Cadillac and most of the extra staff...
...Lysenko was reaping a sweet political harvest. On his 60th birthday he won his seventh Order of Lenin. When someone complained to the Central Committee that the official Botanical Journal had disparaged the old tree grafter's views, Khrushchev interrupted: "The editorial staff should be replaced." When the speaker then added that some Soviet scientists last year had said Lysenko was "through both in theory and in practice." Khrushchev cut in: "Tsitsin [a distinguished botanist in the Academy of Sciences] said it. He should have been asked at a party meeting why he spoke that way." Lysenko himself...
Fallout Detector. A radiation detector that plugs into any standard radio or TV set was demonstrated by Tracerlab, Inc. When fallout occurs, the device sounds a wailing alarm through the speaker, drops in pitch as radiation grows less dangerous. Price: about...