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...Through Vice President Garner and Speaker Bankhead, the President told Congress "it would not be safe" to let his powers to alter the dollar's gold content and to continue the $2,000,000,000 Exchange Stabilization Fund expire June 30. He asked extension of both to Jan. 15, 1941 (five days before the next President will be inaugurated...
...Music, by Cafe Society's pet playwright, Noel Coward. Autograph fiends were in Heaven, pressed together as close as the cards in a sealed deck. A battery of photographers flashed their bulbs as into the Music Box streamed the John Barrymores, Prince Serge Obolensky, Margo, Tallulah Bankhead, Major Bowes, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Hope Hampton, Lady Castlerosse, Lucius Beebe, many another...
Next night 36 proud delegates attended a banquet given by the Civil Liberties Commission of the Colored Elks to honor six Congressmen chosen as champions of the underprivileged. A triumph was the banqueting place: the private red-&-gilt dining room (attached to the House Restaurant) of Speaker William Brockman Bankhead of Alabama...
...fortify his control over the Senate, Majority Leader Barkley got three more New Dealers (Bankhead, Minton, Green) appointed to the Steering Committee, two more (Schwartz, Smathers) appointed to the Policy Committee...
Three days after Mamba's Daughters opened, 19 notables-including Actresses Judith Anderson, Tallulah Bankhead and Dorothy Gish, Scene-Designer Norman Bel Geddes, Author Carl Van Vechten, and Publishers Cass Canfield and John Farrar -ran a testimonial in the N. Y. Times...