Word: bankhead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Adopted 39-to-28 the Conference re port on the Bankhead Cotton Control Bill, virtually in the form in which it was originally passed by the House (to limit cotton production to 10,000,000 bales by imposing a 50% tax on any cotton farmers produce above their quotas - and no quota exemptions for small farmers...
Despite crossed fingers and toes, strong misgivings and grave doubts the Senate last week passed (46-to-39) a bill by the Brothers Bankhead of Alabama to limit cotton production by penalties instead of bribes...
...domestic allotments to cotton growers who destroyed a quarter of their crop. But good growing weather and human avarice thwarted the AAA program with the result that the 1933 cotton crop was even larger than that for 1932. To force crop cuts Senator John Hollis Bankhead and Representative William B. Bankhead persuaded the Administration to endorse their measure to tax surplus production out of existence rather than to try to spirit it off the market with cash. Last month the House passed (251-to-115) the bill to assign each planter a bale quota based on his past production...
Keep on saying that a tax on inactive money (such as Senator Bankhead proposed in Feb., 1933) instead of a tax on action; wd. enable all Roosevelt's public works program to continue WITHOUT mortgaging the future...
...slow but gaudy melodrama of the lavender-&-horse-pistols school, Jezebel is notable mainly because it gives Miriam Hopkins (selected for the lead when Tallulah Bankhead fell ill) a chance to rival her cinema performance as a Southern vixen in The Story of Temple Drake...