Word: bankhead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President last week killed an inflationary threat. He vetoed the Bankhead bill, S.B. No. 660, the latest move by the Congressional farm bloc to boost farm prices. No. 660 was inflationary in that it would have excluded Federal farm benefit payments from the calculation of parity prices for price-ceiling purposes. This would automatically have provided a higher base for parity prices, and would thus have forced ceiling prices...
WASHINGTON--The powerful Senate farm bloc today forced to final passage and sent to the House the Bankhead skilled-farmer deferment bill, ignoring the strong protests of the Administration that it might upset carefully-devised 1943 military strategy...
Among the Canteen's visitors have been Eleanor Roosevelt, the Duchess of Windsor (same evening), Lord & Lady Halifax, Herbert Hoover. Among its 300 entertainers each week have been Marlene Dietrich, Gertrude Lawrence, Grace Moore, Tallulah Bankhead, Ethel Merman. Other tidbits...
From the Senate came another wrench in manpower planning. Alabama's John H. Bankhead drafted two bills to defer agricultural labor from the draft, force the release on furlough for farm work of Army men who had been farmers. Franklin Roosevelt made a countermove-suggested some use of soldiers in harvesting crops, volunteer harvesting by children...
Between the Army and such Senators as John Bankhead, Manpower Commissioner Paul V. McNutt was in the middle last week. Paul McNutt must find the men the Army asks for-but he can go to the President if he considers the Army's demands too high. It appeared that McNutt, who would like to compromise on a figure of 9,000,000 men, might do just that...