Word: bankhead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week in Sherman, Tex., Federal District Judge Randolph Bryant granted a temporary injunction against collection of cotton taxes levied under AAA's auxiliary Bankhead Cotton Control Act, declared informally: ''I think the law is clearly and plainly unconstitutional." †Admonished 69-year-old Mrs. Wallace, when photographers approached her son: "Now brush your hair, Sonny, and be a credit to the Government...
...about birth control among bees. ... I have a good many bees. I do not know how many of them are queens; but I am just a little curious to know how I am expected to control the queen bees. . . ." "Permit me to say," solemnly interrupted Alabama's Senator Bankhead. "that this amendment was incorporated at the request of the bee shippers of this country. It is quite a large industry in some six or eight States, and there are now bee bargaining agreements under which the bee producers are operating and with which they are satisfied. Of course...
...Senator may talk as long as he can. By yielding to co-operative colleagues for long involved questions or side speeches, he can, under the rules, hold the floor almost indefinitely. Thus, two months ago, when he was filibustering against the anti-lynching bill, Alabama's Senator Bankhead effectively tied up Senate proceedings for a whole afternoon without speaking more than 500 words. Last week, however, it soon became apparent that Senator Long was going to get no assistance or relief from other Senators, was in fact going to be held strictly to the rules. He could yield only...
...Shuberts, producers) is something, but not gay. It tells the tale of a wife who sets out to reform an erring husband by the time-honored method of flirting with another man, finds the other man more attractive than the husband, runs away with him. And it represents Tallulah Bankhead's third time at bat this season (previous plays: Dark Victory, Rain). While Something Gay affords Miss Bankhead ample opportunity to cuss and cuddle, its dialog is so low-pressure, its scheme so trivial that critics sorrowfully had to credit her with another strikeout. Actress Bankhead is evidently having...
...Returned to committee, with instructions that it be reported back by May 12, the Bankhead Farmers' Home Corporation bill for creation of a $1,000,000,000 Government corporation to help tenants and sharecroppers buy farms. Said Virginia's Byrd: "This is the most loosely and crudely drawn measure ever submitted to the Senate...