Word: bankhead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alabama's Bankhead last week startled the Senate by suggesting that it go home soon. His listeners wondered if Senator Bankhead was putting out a feeler for the President, who enjoys life much more when Congress is not around. If that was the case, here was another occasion on which Mr. Roosevelt had not seen fit to take his Majority Leader into his confidence. For among the first to rise in surprised opposition to Mr. Bankhead's idea was plodding Leader Barkley...
Business, as represented by the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, last week launched a concerted drive upon Congress to do for it that which Franklin Roosevelt has not done (see p. 67). In particular the Chamber was pointing for a helpful tax bill, which Senator Bankhead's move, if adopted, would make impossible. No such bill has yet been written or even formally discussed, but from the House last week Business received one pleasant surprise. The Ways & Means Committee, preparing to carry out the Treasury's recommended revision of the Security laws, voted not only to freeze...
...scholarly, war-impoverished Tennessee slaveholder, stringy, hard-jawed Hatton Sumners, 63, is a self-taught authority on law and history (specialty: the 13th Century). When he rises to speak, the House hushes. On an automobile ride in 1937 with the late Majority Leader Joe Robinson, Speaker Bankhead, Majority Leader Sam Rayburn and Senator Ashurst, he announced the first serious opposition to President Roosevelt's plan for altering the Supreme Court by saying: "Boys, here's where I cash in." He would not receive the Court bill in his committee and forced the Senate to consider it first...
...were an automobile, would be a Rolls-Royce with a Brewster body and the very best trimmings. Though not up to Wuthering Heights (TIME, April 17), it is one of the best star vehicles Hollywood has produced this year. As a play, it was not a success when Tallulah Bankhead took it to Broadway four years ago. Refashioned by Screenwriter Casey Robinson to fit Bette Davis, Warners' most talented and ambitious star, it gives her a chance to do a good job and puts her well up in line for her third Academy Award...
...unduly disturbed was the President when the Senate suddenly took its own head and passed the Bankhead plan, upping the price the farmers would have to pay from 3? to 5? a pound and limiting sales to 2,000,000 bales. For with the help of House Agricultural Chairman Marvin Jones, and with time working against the Bankhead plan because planting had already started, he counted on it dying an early death in the House. Meantime, the Department of Agriculture already had $5,000,000 available to put the Roosevelt plan into operation...