Word: rayburn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Correspondents at a press conference early last week thought they heard Mr. Roosevelt say that Congress could well finish its task within the fortnight, leave the details of execution to him. Majority Leaders Alben Barkley in the Senate, Sam Rayburn in the House acted as if that was the idea, got much Defense work done...
...Ring. The House hippodrome was the wildest show. Majority Leader Sam Rayburn, of Bonham, Tex., utterly lost control of his cageful of snarling Democrats, and Minority Leader Joe Martin, of North Attleboro, Mass., quietly turned loose his herd of trumpeting Republicans. Trampled in the confusion were the hopes of the Wild Men of the South to amend the Wage & Hour Act so drastically as to make it almost inoperative...