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...Head of the House. One of them is bland, supercilious Representative John J. O'Connor, Tammanyman and brother of Franklin Roosevelt's oldtime law partner. Democrat O'Connor, as Chairman of the Rules Committee, has helped in part to make up for the absence of Leader Bankhead. Only trouble is that Chairman O'Connor is so willing to stiff-arm opposition that he is not overly beloved by the House...
Enter Senators. President Roosevelt had scarcely returned to his desk from his vacation when he was waited upon by a depressed delegation led by four Cotton Senators-Georgia's George, South Carolina's Smith and Byrnes, Alabama's Bankhead. Gloomily they told the President that unless the New Deal does something new, different and soon for cotton, the South will suffer its worst economic 'blow since the Civil War. They then sketched Cotton's woeful case history...
Promptly the Press blossomed with denials from AAAdministrator Davis that any change in the loan policy was contemplated. Senator Bankhead, author of the Cotton Reduction Program, soothingly reassured the public that loans would continue into the new crop year beginning Aug. 1. A group of Cabinet officers and Senators hurried into conference with President Roosevelt, emerged to announce that the President was entirely in sympathy with the cotton control program. Bellowed Senator Ellison D. Smith of South Carolina: "I think the same sinister forces that wrecked Hoover's farm program are at work to destroy our present cotton policy...
...accordance with the club's tradition this will be the first production of the play in this country. Earlier in the year it was considered by the Theater Guild with either Ina Claire or Tallulah Bankhead in the title-role...
Consensus was that he had not. But while nobody would ever again electrify the part of Sadie Thompson as Jeanne Eagels had, it was agreed that Tallulah Bankhead's Thompson was well worth watching. Where Jeanne Eagels' Sadie had seemed to maintain at least a vestige of hidden personal reserve, Tallulah Bankhead's flounced all over the stage with the abandon of the late Texas Guinan. In accounting for Miss Bankhead's failure to shade her various denunciations of the preacher who wanted to bring Sadie to salvation by way of a penitentiary sentence, only...