Word: bankhead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Life is bound by no censorship, so why should the stage, which attempts to portray life, be censored?" Tallulah Bankhead, interviewed last night at the Plymouth Theatre, was giving her opinion of the move to "clean up the stage and screen...
...Miss Bankhead was highly amused at an offer she has recently had from Hollywood from Frank Capra, the director. Columbia Pictures were planning to make "Lost Horizon," and Capra wired Miss Bankhead that they were going to change the woman missionary in the story to a prostitute, and would she please come. "That's Hollywood for you," smiled Tallulah...
...Head of the House. One of them is bland, supercilious Representative John J. O'Connor, Tammanyman and brother of Franklin Roosevelt's oldtime law partner. Democrat O'Connor, as Chairman of the Rules Committee, has helped in part to make up for the absence of Leader Bankhead. Only trouble is that Chairman O'Connor is so willing to stiff-arm opposition that he is not overly beloved by the House...
Enter Senators. President Roosevelt had scarcely returned to his desk from his vacation when he was waited upon by a depressed delegation led by four Cotton Senators-Georgia's George, South Carolina's Smith and Byrnes, Alabama's Bankhead. Gloomily they told the President that unless the New Deal does something new, different and soon for cotton, the South will suffer its worst economic 'blow since the Civil War. They then sketched Cotton's woeful case history...
Promptly the Press blossomed with denials from AAAdministrator Davis that any change in the loan policy was contemplated. Senator Bankhead, author of the Cotton Reduction Program, soothingly reassured the public that loans would continue into the new crop year beginning Aug. 1. A group of Cabinet officers and Senators hurried into conference with President Roosevelt, emerged to announce that the President was entirely in sympathy with the cotton control program. Bellowed Senator Ellison D. Smith of South Carolina: "I think the same sinister forces that wrecked Hoover's farm program are at work to destroy our present cotton policy...