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...fond of Bankhead But I'd love to meet Tallulah -But that's off the record...
Married. Actress Tallulah Bankhead, 35, daughter of Speaker William Brockman Bankhead of the House of Representatives; to Actor John Emery, 32; in Jasper...
...nights later Senator Barkley, Speaker Bankhead and Leader Sam Rayburn of the House waited on the President to hear his views at first hand. Vice President Garner who not only favored swift adjournment but was in the doghouse for his part in killing the Court Bill (TIME, Aug. 2) was not there. Nor was Senator Pat Harrison, who had been remarking in the cloakrooms that Congress ought to adjourn before it gets into "another state of confusion." But the visitors at the White House were quickly shamed out of any hasty desire to go home...
President Roosevelt asked them what they had done so far to justify Congress' seven months sojourn in Washington. Speaker Bankhead started to rattle off a list of bills passed-bills for the most part neither important nor publicly known. The President squelched him with a roar of laughter. Presently the visitors came out and gave the press a list of five bills to be acted on before adjournment...
...Democrats who led the 16 minority Republicans in opposition included some of the ablest, most experienced members of the Democratic ranks. They included many who had been expected to find reason for swinging back to the Administration's side on the compromise bill, such as Connally of Texas, Bankhead of Alabama, the President's personal friend, Radcliffe of Maryland. Although many of the opposition undoubtedly hoped to use the Court bill as a means of inflicting a defeat on Franklin Roosevelt, among such men as these, charges of personal animus only helped to create bitterness. Whether...