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...Sparkman succeeded to the Senate seat of the late John Bankhead.-Here his gift for compromise came into sharp relief when he voted to pass the Taft-Hartley Act and later voted to sustain Harry Truman's veto of the bill...
...been highly tolerant of such Southern opposition as Sparkman's. In 1950 the State Department selected Sparkman as one of five U.S. delegates to the U.N. General Assembly. From Andrei Vishinsky and Jacob Malik he learned something a good deal more Arctic than anything in Speaker Bankhead's zephyrus philosophy. "For the first time," said Sparkman, "I found men who were not amenable to any reason or compromise...
...Sparkman had already been nominated for a sixth term in the House when Bankhead died, could not have dropped out of the congressional race without allowing a Republican to win it by default. To avoid that disaster, he ran simultaneously for House and Senate and won both elections-the first man in U.S. history...
...Show (Sun. 6:30 p.m., NBC). Tallulah Bankhead and her guests: Groucho Marx, George Sanders, Fred Allen, Ethel Merman, Frank Sinatra...
...Show (Sun. 6:30 p.m., NBC). Tallulah Bankhead, with Groucho Marx, George Sanders, Fred Allen...