Word: speaker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After hours of such talk, the Senate passed the salary bill (68 to 9). It was as nice a raise as anyone would get in the U.S. in 1949. The same bill raised the Vice President's and the Speaker's salaries from $20,000 to $30,000, and gave them each $10,000 in tax-free expense money to boot. The House passed the bill this week...
Charles Wolf, the other speaker at the meeting, declared that the United States should back all liberal, moderate governments in southeast Asia with more than just lip service. It should do so by giving such governments active support in the UN, by exchanging students, and by sending economic aid, Economic aid should not come on a Marshall Plan basis, however, Wolf was quick to point out, but should be sent through private investments. By doing so the United States could bring about what Wolf called multilateral world trade. This term means that once Indonesia received help...
...listened to plans for Inauguration Day (Jan. 20): the committee expected 750,000 visitors, 30 floats. He rode up to the Hill for a birthday luncheon for Speaker Sam Rayburn in the Speaker's dining room, flabbergasted Congressmen by popping into the House chamber for the last dull rites of that archaic ceremony -counting the electoral votes. Cracked he, as he left: "It looks like I'm ahead...
...been recommending for the past two years. Obviously what made everyone sit up and take notice of it this time was the fact that Harry Truman was putting it before a Democratic Congress which might very well give him a number of the things for which he asked. House Speaker Sam Rayburn last week asserted confidently that Congress would receive the program with "considerable favor." Democratic Congressman Robert ("Muley") Doughton, chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee, was not so sure about one point. Said he: "The country will not look very favorably on increased taxes until the people...
...assistant regional director of the War Manpower Commission. But he also began to get around. In his WPA job, he printed and mailed out thousands of diplomas, each carefully signed by Hubert H. Humphrey Jr. He joined everything in sight. The word spread that Hubert Humphrey was a rousing speaker-and always available...