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...expected to pay the income tax, undivided profits tax, social security tax, the plus tax, the surplus tax and the nonplussed tax. The Robinson-Patman, Wheeler-Rayburn and What-Other-Senators-Have-You bills are all aimed...
...other serious contender is Representative Sam Rayburn of Bonham, Tex. Mr. Rayburn, who will be 55 the day after the next Congress convenes, is ten years Mr. O'Connor's senior in point of service, but until recently far less known. The reason is that, although Bonham is approximately the same distance from Uvalde that Detroit, Mich, is from Washington, D. C., they are both in the same State and for many years Sam Rayburn was overshadowed by John Nance Garner. He was in fact one of Garner's able lieutenants. In the House he seldom makes...
...years ago. when Speaker Henry Rainey died, Vice President Garner quietly pushed Mr. Rayburn forward for the job of Speaker. He lost because Senator Guffey, then as now big cheese in Pennsylvania, canvassed his House delegation, announced they would vote solidly for Joe Byrns. Thereafter Mr. Rayburn withdrew from the contest. This year matters are different. Sam Rayburn is better known, partly because he is head of the Interstate & Foreign Commerce Committee (he has no other committee assignments) and as such fathered the utility holding company (death sentence) bill. Doing so won him the approval of Franklin Roosevelt...
Miss Doris Garrett, Leonard, Tex., high-school girl, was crowned Queen Onion here June 2 at our Centennial Onion Festival and was featured in a parade of eleven floats and two bands and two drum and bugle corps. Eight thousand people saw her crowned by Congressman Sam Rayburn, Chairman of the Speakers' Bureau, Democratic National Committee...
Most voluble defender of the holding company law last week was Representative Sam Rayburn who helped write it. In Washington he stepped to a microphone to declare in a nationwide broadcast: "If the Supreme Court should deny the power of Congress effectively to regulate the holding company, I am convinced Congress would tax the holding company out of existence...