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...Says Hubert, who insists that he has been advised he is healthy enough: "I prefer to rely on my doctors for medical opinions." What apparently reassures some liberals who distrust Byrd is that Jimmy Carter will be calling most of the shots for the majority leader and the new whip???California's Alan Cranston, 62, who is running unopposed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: Building a Byrd House | 1/10/1977 | See Source »

...this decade seemed rapidly to be acquiring the title of Mother of All Corruption: Indiana, famed for its Governors-in-jail, for its Klan Dragons, its Watson machine. Congressman Vestal was not a leader in the anti-reapportionment fight. But he happened recently to have been appointed the Republican Whip???it being thereby his job to whip all Republicans into their seats to vote for whatever measure the Republican leaders declared good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Stolen Seats | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

There were Hiram Johnson and Ralston in the full bloom of candidacy. There was Borah, who led in the blind Senator, Gore of Oklahoma. There was Warren, father-in-law to General Pershing, last of the Civil War veterans, and Pat Harrison, the Democratic whip???all the others regular and progressive "of both parties," excepting only four, among them Mr. La Follette, who was still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Opening | 12/10/1923 | See Source »

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