Word: speakers
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...Damn Lie." The Teamsters' power plant began to backfire. Speaker Sam Rayburn, told that Jimmy Roosevelt and Zagri were claiming that Rayburn was in favor of their bill, sent out a plain comment: "It's a damn lie." Mr. Sam called in the hardest-pressed of the committee members, particularly freshmen, to assure them that the Speaker himself would campaign for any man put in serious trouble by Zagri's efforts. Labor Committee Chairman Graham Harden of North Carolina growled threats about investigating "brazen outside influences...
Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey, the only formally declared candidate for the presidency,* has a problem. His campaign managers have carefully written a moderate's role for him. on the reasonable theory that it will be popular with the voters. But whenever Humphrey takes the speaker's stand, he invariably throws the script away and becomes a wildcat liberal, promising the world to his listeners. "And the people in front of him just don't want the world right now," explains a worried Humphrey advocate. In his offstage moments, Humphrey himself senses the public...
...speaker, Stanko Grozdanich, legal counsel of the Yugoslavian trade unions; stressed Yugoslavia's wish to preserve its independence and to maintain relations with all countries. "As civilization grows, countries actually become increasingly dependent upon one another," he noted...
Butler's Blast. Opening gun in the latest and biggest fight was fired by Paul Butler, chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Ever since Johnson and Speaker Sam Rayburn adopted a new legislative strategy that coincided with President Eisenhower's (and the nation's) vision of a balanced budget, Butler had been frustrated, tormented. Last week he put his feelings on the public record. "We are going to be in a tough situation in 1960," he told a TV interviewer. "Quite a few Democrats around the country are unhappy about the progress that has been made...
...once an officer in Hitler's army, but in a noncombat occupation job in France, where his command of the language is said to have enabled him to give secret help to the French underground. He is a professor-the most respected title in Germany-and an excellent speaker...