Word: speaker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anything for anyone to be scared about," he said. "If a major recession or depression comes-which I do not expect-it will not be justified by our economic situation but will be man-made." Nor did Texas' Sam, who is slated to be Speaker of the House, see any chance of a coalition of some Southern Democrats and Northern Republicans being able to stop Harry Truman's program...
...Only in 1946, they said, had the issue been clearly drawn against the New Deal, and in 1946 the Republicans had won. Some talked of reviving their congressional coalition with conservative Southern Democrats-a set of obstructionists whom Harry Truman had just thrown overboard as so much excess ballast. Speaker Joe Martin hustled down to Mobile, told the Alabama Chamber of Commerce: "It was the South which helped to hold the line for American enterprise through the trying years of the prewar experiment in Washington...
...legislature (to replace his late father) on the strength of 675 write-in votes. His tenure then had lasted 63 days, cut short by a decision of the seven-member Georgia Supreme Court that his "inauguration" was illegal. This time, the court was conspicuously absent from the ceremonies. House Speaker Fred Hand, who introduced all notables, sniggered an explanation: "Someone told me that the Supreme Court came in and found that their seats were filled. And someone in the seats said, 'You-all put him out and we put him in.' " The justices had come to the inauguration...
Bean, the main speaker for the evening, will discuss the long-range political implications of the recent election, with a side explanation of where his rival pollsters went off the track in predicting a Republican sweep this year...
...Grandfather John and Uncle John were U.S. Senators; Father William Brockman Bankhead was Speaker of the House...