Word: speakership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...writing Ways & Means, and he showed promise of being a great one. He already knew more about the complexities of federal fiscal policy than any other man in the House. Sam Rayburn leaned on Mills's advice in fiscal matters, seemed to be grooming him for the Speakership...
...risk being gerrymandered out of Congress by a legislature under the segregationist thumb of Governor Orval Faubus. Mills therefore has recently taken a strong segregationist position, this year masterminded the disputed House seating of Little Rock Segregationist Dale Alford, won respect for his political footwork, lost points for the speakership...
Texas' Sam Rayburn will relieve Massachusetts' Joe Martin of the Speakership, but not of his office suite. Mr. Sam, weary of swapping offices, told Joe to stay on in the Speaker's rooms. After 32 years in the Senate, Georgia's patriarchal Walter George, senior Democrat since the 1952 defeat of Tennessee's fiery-eyed Kenneth McKellar, will win the prestige of Mc-Kellar's old title, Senate President pro tempore...
...Hermann Ehlers as Speaker of the Bundestag (Lower House). Gerstenmaier was a Christian Democratic Deputy, a leading Protestant Church official (and thus a politically useful counterweight to the Catholic Chancellor himself), a devoted follower of Adenauer, a passionate believer in European unity. Besides Gerstenmaier's qualifications for the speakership, Chancellor Adenauer also had a reason for wanting him kicked upstairs: as a passionate defender of EDC and its supranational ideal, Gerstenmaier might not be flexible enough to accomplish the horse-trading needed to get the Paris accords through the Foreign Affairs Committee...
...powers he amassed, particularly the Rules Committee chairmanship, were stripped from his successor, "Uncle Joe" Cannon, in the revolt of 1910. The speakership was whittled down almost to its purely procedural functions. Since then the Speaker's powers have been gradually increasing again, with Joe Martin's (and before him, Sam Rayburn's) subtle cloakroom tactics substituting for the brazen railroading of Czar Reed...