Word: bankhead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Speaker Bankhead of the House called on the President to discuss legislation, emerged to say that the emphasis will be on national defense, especially in the air. Another report led the New York Times to publish the headline of the week...
...farm leaders few are so influential as the Federation's burly president, Alabama Cotton Grower Edward Asbury O'Neal III. Last week to the Federation's convention in New Orleans went Ed O'Neal's farm-minded neighbor, Senator John H. Bankhead of Alabama, to propose a plan for disposing of an estimated cotton carryover of 13,600,000 bales. The plan: to get farmers to reduce their estimated 1939 production of 12,000,000 bales by 4,000,000 bales, in return for being given 4,000,000 of the 7,000,000 bales...
...Speaker Bankhead of the House was a Warm Springs visitor. Points for the press: Everything about the reorganization of House committees was sweet and smooth; there would be no such thing as "Must" legislation next session...
...wearing expensive sloppy clothes, living in a Manhattan penthouse, fussed over by a devoted male secretary. Odets clearly enjoys his success. In the first golden days when he was hoisted into fame, he got a great kick from going to parties, being seen out with Beatrice Lillie and Tallulah Bankhead, weekending with Helen Hayes and her husband, Playwright Charles MacArthur...
...ardent theatregoer, Franklin Roosevelt prefers to watch movies at the White House. He has never said that Walter Huston is his favorite actor; he has never seen Actress Tallulah Bankhead, the daughter of his Speaker of the House, on the stage, but has met her at a White House reception...