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Tendered respectfully to Speaker Bankhead of the House of Representatives last week was the second such record. With bone-dry formality it stated the decisions, votes and reasoning of the Board at 15 meetings during 1936, disclosed one surprising fact: the Board was not unanimous but divided on its most generally applauded action, the first, 50% increase in member bank reserve requirements, which took effect last August. The dissenters: Governors John Keown McKee and Chester Charles Davis. Whether they disagreed in whole or in part with the Board's consensus was not revealed. Whether or not they came around...
...they can be put on." When the roll calls were taken, however, the Byrnes amendment was defeated 58 to 25, the Robinson amendment 49 to 34, but among those 34 were 22 Democrats (not counting three who were paired for it). And the names of Harrison, Glass, Byrnes, Pittman, Bankhead, Bailey, Connally, Clark, Russell, Democratic stalwarts all, were every one of them recorded supporting Joseph T. Robinson and opposing Franklin D. Roosevelt...
Head of the delegation was Joseph T. Robinson, Democratic leader of the Senate. Backing him were the Messrs. Bankhead and Pope of the Senate Agriculture Committee, Representative Marvin Jones, head of the like committee of the House. At first Mr. Wallace was reluctant to agree to what was urged upon him. He was pressed with the point that his bill would boost the Government's expenses about $100,000,000 next year, that it is late in the season and Congress is left with a great deal to do. On condition that Congressional committees would continue study...
Speaker William Brockman Bankhead . . . . . . LL.D...
...Marie Bankhead Owen (sister) . . . . . . LL.D...