Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...share to PWA, for continuance of heavy construction projects (TIME, June 26). The measure also killed the Federal Theatre and crippled other white-collar projects, called for a three-man, bipartisan WPAdministration, limited WPA building projects to $50,000. As the Senate settled down to ponder this bill, Actress Tallulah Bankhead and other theatrical talent created a diversion in behalf of restoring FTP. Secretary Ickes climbed Capitol Hill to ask $500,000,000 outright, instead of a diverted $125,000,000, for PWA. But Franklin Roosevelt created the biggest diversion of all by asking Congress to inaugurate...
...Alabama explained this to his emotional niece last week, he was courting support from city men in the House for the $383,000,000 increases which the Senate wrote into the 1940 farm bill (TIME, May 22) and which last week were threshed by House-Senate conferees. Besides Actress Bankhead, another lobbyist for Relief who last week journeyed to Washington from Manhattan was Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. Having served seven terms in Congress himself, he knew just what to do. He got city men in the House to offer their support of the farm bill increases in return for country...
...sent up by the House to the Senate last fortnight (TIME, June 26), discontinued work relief for employes in the Federal Theatre Project, for reasons of unnecessity, inefficiency, immorality and Communism. The same bill last week provided Congressmen with relief from their work. Into Washington swept throbbing, throaty Actress Tallulah Bankhead (The Little Foxes), chosen by FTP's friends to lobby for it because her Uncle John is Alabama's senior Senator, her father Speaker of the House...
...Senate subcommittee voted to restore life to FTP. Actress Bankhead's Uncle John telegraphed her: "I tried 24 hours to find a weak place in your masterly argument. . . . Check me off as voting for the project...
...Radio actor & actress: Don Ameche, Claire Trevor...