Word: bankhead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Miss Hall v. Miss Bankhead...
Other costly junkets cited by Author Helm: Alaskan Railroad ($4,360, including $143.55 worth of photographer's supplies for Nebraska's Howell); Heflin-Bankhead contest ($90,000); campaign expenses ($128,000). Charged to the public for the Senate barber shop were...
...much. Yet the Hays organization sometimes attempts it. Last year, regulations against salacious cinemadvertising were added to the industry's code. Last week came another incident to heat and bother the upright Presbyterian soul of Tsar Hays. In Motion Picture Magazine appeared an interview with decadent-looking Tallulah Bankhead (daughter of Alabama's onetime Representative William Brockman Bankhead). written by one Gladys Hall. Reported Miss Hall: "I am told that Tallul' is never decently hypocritical. . . . She reveals All- and more than all. . . . She gives to all functions of living and loving, of body and soul, their round...
...Training Corps and the pay of reserve officers on active duty. The bill reduced Army officer personnel by 2,000. ¶ Adopted a resolution by North Carolina's Warren opening clerk-hire records to the public (see col. 3). ¶ Passed a bill by Alabama's Bankhead authorizing the expenditure of $1,000,000 per year for four years to help State vocational education. ¶ Received from Arkansas' Fuller a bill to require each & every Government employe to know by heart "The Star-Spangled Banner...
...Senate was unimpressed. It voted (6440-18) to seat Mr. Bankhead. Flushed, crushed. Citizen Heflin gave the chamber one last lingering look, rose from his chair, marched defiantly out. Democrats were gathering around Senator Bankhead with congratulations. Not one bade "Tom-Tom" Heflin goodbye. The 18 Senators who had voted for him were all Republicans...