Word: spessard
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...Dwight Eisenhower came a final message conveying "my best wishes to Mr. Sam." Said Speaker Sam Rayburn of the Texas-born President: "I long ago told him that he was my most distinguished constituent." On the Senate side, Ohio Republican George Bender was in mid-sentence when Florida Democrat Spessard Holland reminded the Senate that it was time to adjourn. Responded Vice President Richard Nixon : "The point of order is well taken." He banged down his gavel and the members of the 84th Congress scattered to take up their cam paign cudgels...
...would accept complete emasculation of the Administration's flexible price support program rather than veto a farm bill this year. Accordingly, at week's end, the committee came forth (by an 8-to-2 vote, Vermont's Republican George Aiken and Florida's Democratic Spessard Holland dissenting) with a bill that Democratic Senator Allen Ellender, the committee's chairman, jauntily declared "gave the President everything he asked for, and added some ideas of our own." What Louisiana's Ellender apparently meant was that the bill gave the President the soil bank program (backed...
...caucus of Southern Senators, Thurmond produced mimeographed copies of his own arm-waving call for nullification. The caucus pushed Thurmond aside, ordered the paper rewritten by more temperate Senators. The final version was written mostly by Georgia's Senator Richard Russell, with amendments by Florida's Spessard Holland and Texas' Price Daniel and polishing by Arkansas' highly polished J. William Fulbright, a liberal hero. At that point Strom Thurmond elbowed his way back onto the scene, posed for photographers dictating the final draft-with which he had nothing to do-to his wife seated...
...distress of the Republicans, the Democrats (joined by Maverick Republican Bill Langer) voted down Millikin's amendment 49-46. Then, much to their own surprise, the Republicans, joined by Virginia's Harry Byrd and Willis Robertson, Colorado's Edwin Johnson and Florida's Spessard Holland, defeated the George amendment...
Last week the Senate: ¶After long consideration, amended the 1928 Standard Container Act by legalizing a smaller, round stave, ⅜-bu. basket for fruits and vegetables. Already legal are ⅜-bu. baskets made of splints, but, explained Florida's Spessard Holland, these are less satisfactory for tree-ripened fruit. ¶ Passed a $29 billion defense appropriation after voting down, 38 to 50, Massachusetts' John Kennedy's attempt to add $350 million to keep the Army at its present 19-division strength. Michigan's Homer Ferguson argued that the cost of continuing the two divisions...