Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cobb, who had gathered together three Midwest and Southern utility holding companies, dissolved them and put their eleven big operating companies under a new holding company giant: Commonwealth & Southern, with operating units in eleven States from Michigan to Alabama. To Manhattan he summoned Wendell Willkie to be C. & S.'s attorney. When old-line Utilitycoon Cobb retired in 1933, he made Willkie president...
Farm Billion. Relief is largely city men's matter, farm bills are won by country men. When Senator Bankhead of 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...
...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...
Before the Appropriations subcommittee chairmanned by Colorado's compact little Senator Adams, Alabama's gift to the drama tossed aside her blue felt hat, perched herself on the table and read a prepared statement. "Go slower, Tallulah," whispered her father, who sat in as coach (and whom she also hugged for cameras). But she raced on with her arguments-that the theatre should be helped because it yields a 10% Federal tax on its admissions; because its people know no other work and their talents are social assets; because they bring cheer to millions, and give benefit shows...
...public pay roll since 1930, when red-faced Alabama withdrew him from the Senate, has -been James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin, 70, whose mortal hate & fear of the Pope of Rome used to be sure-fire political hokum. His last job, in 1937, was as a special attorney for the Department of Justice at $6,000 per year...