Word: bankhead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which might have pierced a thicker hide than Texas Jack's. Many of his colleagues in Washington wondered, too, why Mr. Garner had not even gone to the funeral of his old friend William Bankhead, Speaker of the House...
Below him, in the well of the House, in a casket blanketed by white asters and lilies, lay the body of his friend and prede cessor, the late William B. Bankhead of Jasper, Ala. Before the casket sat Franklin Roosevelt, his face weary and sad; beside him the Cabinet. Behind the Bankhead family were ranged the House and Senate...
...Other famed Bankheads of Alabama: the Speaker's daughter, Actress Tallulah; his elder brother, U. S. Senator John Hollis Bankhead II; his father, the late Senator John Hollis Bankhead, who died...
What tall, quiet William Bankhead had left was an unquestioned reputation for integrity, a thorough knowledge of parliamentary rules, a commanding presence. He was ill (heart trouble) when he stepped up from the Majority Leadership to succeed the late Speaker Joe Byrns of Tennessee. Yet he had to shepherd much unruly legislation through the House, keep a restive majority in hand (with the aid of Majority Leader Sam Rayburn who was elected his successor just before the state funeral in the House Chamber) at a time when impatience with Congress, impatience with the delays natural to democracy, was seeping through...
Death, as it must to all men, came this week to Speaker Bankhead, 66, at the Naval Hospital in Washington...