Word: speakers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington the word seeped out that Speaker Sam Rayburn, permanent chairman of the last three Democratic National Conventions, will not accept that honorific spot again at next July's convention in Los Angeles. The chairman, Mister Sam feels, should be conspicuously neutral, and Rayburn's own all-out support of Fellow Texan Lyndon Johnson's presidential ambitions rules...
...Robert Anderson's success as Treasury Secretary is that, in vivid contrast with his outspoken, impatient predecessor, he stays on good terms with the Democratic majority on Capitol Hill. In this he has an accident of geography going for him: Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn are both Texans. Rayburn, an old and trusted friend, was the first man to hear about Texan Anderson's painful decision in 1952 to bolt the Democrats and vote for Eisenhower. Anderson keeps in close touch with the leaders, tells them in detail about his plans and programs...
Former President Harry S. Truman will be the principal speaker at a mock national Democratic convention to be sponsored next spring, from April 29 to May 1, by the Harvard Young Democrats Club. Student representatives will be sent from every state, Gary M. Little '61, the Club's vice-president, said last night...
...evening's opening speaker, Kelly, began, "Here in the menopause of our national history ... I seem to have Mr. Capp's speech." As he brandished a sheaf of documents, he intoned, "I hold here in my hand 205 references...
Mindful that his audience was made up largely of farmers, Speaker Symington fired on one of his favorite targets, Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson. "I don't know who he represents," said Symington, "but I know who he does not represent-the farmers." But it was not what Symington said that impressed the citizens of Abbeville. What impressed them was Stuart Symington himself. Standing straight and tall on the platform, a frown of earnestness stamped on his strong-jawed, ruggedly handsome face, the lingering trace of boyishness nicely balanced by the thick silver streaks in his hair, he looked...