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...Attended the State funeral of Speaker Bankhead; with members of his Cabinet and top administrators left on a special train for the Jasper, Ala. services, and announced that Henry Wallace, who defeated Bankhead for the Democratic Vice-Presidential nomination, would also attend...
...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...
...Speaker of the House since 1936 has been William Brockman Bankhead of Alabama.* His way of rule was not the harsh tsarism of Joe Cannon (1903-11), the rough-&-tumble domination of Nick Longworth (1925-31). Partly from natural bent, partly of necessity, he used the gentler arts of persuasion, parliamentary device, friendship. His pre-New Deal predecessors had special patronage to dispense, and patronage was power. Franklin Roosevelt took away most of the Speaker's patronage, leaving William Bankhead with no club to hold, no favors to give...
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...