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...mention Sit-Downs to me," said Chairman O'Connor when he left the White House. A few hours later his Committee astounded Washington by reporting out the Dies resolution for prompt House action. "I don't predict what action the House may take," said Speaker Bankhead, "but admittedly there is strong opposition to Sit-Down strikes on the part of the membership." That sentiment, if unchecked, promised the incredible spectacle of John L. Lewis following the path of bankers, stockbrokers and utilities magnates to a Congressional witness chair, there to have his inmost secrets exposed to public view...
Next morning in Washington's Union Station his wife, a couple of grandchildren, his Secretary of State and Attorney General welcomed him back to the front of Political action. That afternoon he was closeted with Vice President Garner, Speaker Bankhead and Leader Rayburn of the House, Leader Robinson of the Senate. When they emerged Senator Robinson declared that the Sit-Down situation had passed its crisis. Mr. Garner said: "I am deaf, dumb and blind." Paterfamilias Roosevelt took his family to church on Easter, cast a beneficent smile on the Easter Monday egg-rolling for 53,000 children...
...four years he had given one of their number an exclusive story. Because the President was believed to have "inspired" the Krock story, even read its proof, some newshawks wondered whether the "John" of the anecdote should not have been "Arthur." Others suggested it was John Nance Garner, John Bankhead, or perhaps John Doe. Secretary Stephen Early said he did not know who "John...
...first time in his life House Speaker William Brockman Bankhead watched his daughter Tallulah act in a finished play (Reflected Glory), tearfully observed as the curtain fell: "Parental restraint prevents my gushing. . . ." Before the curtain rose, he signed the $950,000,000 Relief Deficiency Bill...
...Aldrich & Myers, producers) is a praiseworthy attempt to dramatize the political middle-of-the-road and to distinguish, in the blind storm of passionate prejudices which howl from the Right and Left, the path of truth and justice. In so doing, Playwright Brewer, who wrote Dark Victory for Tallulah Bankhead two seasons ago, occasionally loses his dramatic footing, but never his sense of criticism or fair play...