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...speaking in terms of political hyperbole. Two days later Representative Rankin renounced his aspirations for the Speakership. Later in the day Representative Rayburn did the same: "There are no alibis. Under the circumstances, I cannot be elected." And next morning Representative Bankhead dropped out of the contest. Assured of election to the highest House post on the first ballot next month, Democrat Byrns began to expand, to think of himself as already belonging to the immortal company of great Speakers. To an old acquaintance who called him "Mr. Byrns," he said, "Call me Joe? or Uncle...
...being perpetually in office, possess by seniority most of the best committee posts: Buchanan of Texas heads Appropriations; Steagall of Alabama, Banking & Currency; Rayburn of Texas, Interstate & Foreign Commerce; Vinson of Georgia, Naval Affairs; McSwain of South Carolina, Military Affairs; Mansfield of Texas. Rivers & Harbors; Rankin of Mississippi, Veterans; Bankhead of Alabama, Rules. In the next House, however, some two-thirds of the 322 Democrats will come from the North and West and they, too, would like some plums. Shrewd Mr. Guffey, who always likes to play a winner, announced that he would keep his 23 Pennsylvania votes...
Newsworthy indeed would it have been if last week the cotton farmers in the U. S. had voted 9-to-1 against continuance of the Bankhead Act for restricting cotton production by means of a prohibitive ginning tax. Instead the vote was 9-to-1 in favor of this form of compulsory crop limitation. The "election" was unique in that to polling places throughout the South went thousands upon thousands of Negroes who had never cast a ballot before in their lives...
...President Roosevelt promised fortnight ago that next year those who normally raise two bales or less would not be required to cut their production, they had the privilege of voting to reduce the other fellow's crop without reducing their own. Result: 1,095,000 for continuing the Bankhead Act, 113,000 against...
...admitted that Manhattan's Mrs. Harrison Williams, winner of last year's title, had again topped many a private list. Other U. S. winners: Editor Eleanor Medill Patterson of the Washington Herald; Mrs. Eleanor Wilson McAdoo. divorced wife of California's Senator McAdoo; Mrs. Frank Jay Gould ; Actresses Tallulah Bankhead & Ina Claire...