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Sam and Rayburn
Sam Rayburn was a good man, a good American, and, third, a good Democrat.
Sam Rayburn took unnumbered secrets with him to the grave, for he was never loquacious, and his word, once given, was not subject to retraction.
And he said, `` The same fellow who has been running it, Sam Rayburn ''.
It is notably significant that so many Members from both sides of the aisle express their respect and admiration for our beloved Speaker, the Honorable Sam Rayburn.
It is a matter of deep personal satisfaction for me to add my voice to the great and distinguished chorus of my colleagues in this paean of praise, respect, and affection for Speaker Sam Rayburn.
But the task is beyond me because I hold it impossible to compress in a sentence or two the complicated and prodigious contributions Sam Rayburn has made as an individual, as a legislator, as a statesman and as a leader and conciliator, to the majestic progress of this Nation.
For Sam Rayburn never forgot Bonham, his home community, and he never forgot Texas.
More than that, Sam Rayburn is the very living symbol of an iron-clad integrity so powerful in his nature and so constantly demonstrated that he can count some of his best friends in the opposition.
Sam Rayburn has never had to look back at any of his most devastating fights and ever feel ashamed of his conduct as a combatant under fire or his political manners in the heat of conflicting ambitions.
All but two of my nine terms in the House of Representatives has been served under the Speakership of Sam Rayburn.
And Sam Rayburn is a great man -- one who will go down in American history as a truly great leader of the Nation.
I pay my personal tribute to Sam Rayburn, stalwart Texan and great American, not only because today he establishes a record of having served as Speaker of the House of Representatives more than twice as long as Henry Clay, but because of the contributions he has made to the welfare of the people of the Nation during his almost half century of service as a Member of Congress.
No one has sponsored more progressive and important legislation than has Sam Rayburn.
But to run the gauntlet of the programs Sam Rayburn brought into being through his legislative efforts would fill the pages of today's Record.
I prefer to speak, however, of Sam Rayburn, the person, rather than Sam Rayburn, the American institution.
Although Sam Rayburn affects a gruff exterior in many instances, nevertheless he is fundamentally a man of warm heart and gentle disposition.
On September 16, Sam Rayburn will have served as Speaker twice as long as any predecessor and I am proud to join with others in marking this date, and in expressing my esteem for that notable American, Sam Rayburn.

Sam and is
Finally, in The Maltese Falcon among others, the clash between detective and police is carried to its logical conclusion: Sam Spade becomes the chief murder suspect.
What Sam Rayburn's life proves to us all is the magnificent lesson in political science that one can devotedly and with absolute dedication represent the seemingly provincial interests of one's own community, one's own district, one's own State, and by that help himself represent even better the sweep and scope of the problems of this the greatest nation of all time.
For what Sam Rayburn's life in this House teaches us is that loyalty and character are not divisive and there is no such thing as being for your country and neglecting your district.
Sam is having his troubles with Layton Hanover ( Dean Hanover-Lucy Hanover ), but hopes to have him straightened out and going before long.
The charge that the federal indictment of three Chicago narcotics detail detectives `` is the product of rumor, combined with malice, and individual enmity '' on the part of the federal narcotics unit here was made yesterday in their conspiracy trial before Judge Joseph Sam Perry in federal District court.
The Ark is next spoken of as being in the Tabernacle at Shiloh during Samuel's apprenticeship ( 1 Sam.
* Uncle Sam ( initials U. S .) is a common national personification of the American government that according to legend came into use during the War of 1812 and was supposedly named for Samuel Wilson a meat packer in New York, who supplied rations for the soldiers.
An Uncle Sam is mentioned as early as 1775, in the original " Yankee Doodle " lyrics of the Revolutionary War.
* 1977 – In Yonkers, New York, 24-year-old postal employee David Berkowitz (" Son of Sam ") is arrested for a series of killings in the New York City area over the period of one year.
For example, if James's will states that he is leaving $ 500, 000 to his son Sam then the money would be a general devise.
Another question of the same character: " Why the boastful claim: ' What nation on earth is like Thy people Israel ' ( II Sam.
Abiathar ( אביתר, Ebyathar, Evyatar, the father is pre-eminent or father of plenty ), in the Hebrew Bible, son of Ahimelech or Ahijah, High Priest at Nob, the fourth in descent from Eli ( 1 Sam.
Army of Darkness, also titled Bruce Campbell vs Army of Darkness, Evil Dead III: Army of Darkness or just Evil Dead III, is a 1992 American comedy horror film directed by Sam Raimi.
Sam Jethroe is the oldest player to have won the award, at age 32, 33 days older than 2000 winner Kazuhiro Sasaki ( also 32 ).
20: 4 ) is used instead of Gob ( 2 Sam.
* A Sam Browne belt is a modern invention similar in function to the baldric.

Sam and one
A perceptive journalist, Sam Lubell, has phrased it in the title of one of his books as the revolt of the moderates.
Mr. Speaker, Mr. Sam, and Mr. Democrat, at one and the same time.
`` Sam, no one around here wears such heavy soles.
The only one of the priests to escape from Saul's massacre, he fled to David at Keilah, taking with him the ephod and other priestly regalies ( 1 Sam.
Paddy Chayefsky's Academy Award-winning Marty was the most notable examination of working class Bronx life was also explored by Chayefsky in his 1956 film The Catered Affair, and in the 1993 Robert De Niro / Chazz Palminteri film, A Bronx Tale, Spike Lee's 1999 movie Summer of Sam, centered in an Italian-American Bronx community, 1994's I Like It Like That that takes place in the predominately Puerto Rican neighborhood of the South Bronx, and Doughboys, the story of two Italian-American brothers in danger of losing their bakery thanks to one brother's gambling debts.
Dennett is referred to as one of the " Four Horsemen of New Atheism ", along with Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and the late Christopher Hitchens.
Sam Harris argues that there are societally optimal " moral peaks " to discover. In modern times, many thinkers discussing the fact-value distinction and the Is-ought problem have settled on the idea that one cannot derive ought from is.
* In the game series Splinter Cell there are numerous references to the Four Freedoms, with the commanding officer of protagonist Sam Fisher, stating at one point, " this is fifth freedom territory ", indicating that the situation ( in the game plot ) has gotten so grave that one or more of the Four Freedoms are threatened.
On one evening when she is coming home from the mill, Scarlett is accosted by two men who attempt to rob her, but she escapes with the help of Big Sam, the former negro foreman from Tara.
* Sam Lloyd as Neru, one of the Thermians
* 1976 – In New York, New York, David Berkowitz ( aka the " Son of Sam ") kills one person and seriously wounds another in the first of a series of attacks.
One exception is Barjami road, named after one of the leading engineers behind Kistas modernisation, Sam Barjami.
Sam Houston from Texas was one of the few southern opponents of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
* In the final episode of the BBC time travel / cop show Ashes to Ashes ( Series 3, Episode 8 ), it is revealed that the world that Alex Drake awoke to after being shot, which Sam Tyler described and that other major characters inhabit, is a kind of Limbo, one seemingly specifically for members of the police force, who had died in violent or sudden ways, with Gene Hunt taking on a role similar to that of a Psychopomp or Charon of Greek mythology, helping " the troubled souls of Her Majesty's Constabulary " accept their deaths and move on to Heaven.
In 1959, two black-owned record labels, one of which would become hugely successful, made their debut: Sam Cooke's Sar, and Berry Gordy's Motown Records.
Although Roh was from a military background and one of the leaders of Chun's coup d ' etat, the inability of the opposition leaders Kim Dae Jung and Kim Young Sam to agree on a unified candidacy led to his being elected.
* Peckinpah's use of violence was parodied by Monty Python in Sam Peckinpah's " Salad Days ", one of the more controversial episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus, in which a lovely day out for an upper-class English family turns into a blood-soaked orgy of severed limbs and gushing wounds.
Nobody walks past the tombstones reading the names and comes across one labeled " Sam Peckimpah ".

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