Word: rayburn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...purpose is to unify activities for promotion of trade, and it will be under the Department of Commerce, of which Herbert Hoover is Secretary. In debate, Representative Black of Texas snorted at the salaries of $10,000 and generous perquisites offered to the advance agents of commerce. Representative Rayburn of Texas countered by citing the rice industry of California as one of thousands of examples of the benefits secured by our foreign trade agents. Representative Hoch of Kansas was author of the bill...
...other hand, our opponents have lost none of their fighting force and have a number of additions of great strength. Garrett, and Garner, and Pou, and Crisp, and Rayburn will be joined by Rainey, and Hull, and Cannon [Clarence Cannon of Missouri], whose profound knowledge of parliamentary law is familiar to us all. We, as a party, will have our work cut out for us if we are to emerge from the parliamentary battles of the next session with credit to ourselves and to our party, and it cannot be done without co-operation and teamwork...