Word: bankheads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years, the vital question of who would play Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler has stirred controversy in U.S. bars, drawing rooms and dinner tables. Actually tested for the role of Scarlett O'Hara were such various charmers as Tallulah Bankhead, Paulette Goddard, a typist named Margaret Tallichet, a manicurist named Arleen Whelan and Mrs. John Hay Whitney, wife of Mr. Selznick's backer. Mentioned for it were so many other actresses, obscure or celebrated, that Variety cracked that, if all of them attended the premiere, the picture would pay expenses in one performance. Playwright Clare Booth...
...Republican Representatives left their seats and stalked huffily out of the chamber until only Minority Leader Bertrand Snell and Mr. Jenks remained. Then Mr. Jenks jumped up from the place he had occupied for 17 months, walked down front, shook hands with Speaker Bankhead, strode out of the House to loud Democratic applause. He will keep the $14,361.11 salary he has collected plus $8,046.12 expenses. Mr. Roy was to get another $14,361.11 for services he was unable to perform, plus $5,638.89 for the balance of his term, plus $3,118.30 for expenses. Both will be paid...
...avoid a fight on the Senate floor it was agreed that the bill should be rewritten in conference. Meanwhile, Speaker Bankhead deferred naming the House conferees until this week. Thus it was assured that the compromise reached in conference should be dumped back into the House and Senate just before adjournment, when Congressmen will be too tired to fight hard or argue long...
Last February, when Speaker Bankhead and Senate Majority Leader Barkley were insisting that Congress would adjourn by May 15, Nathan W. Robertson, Senate reporter for Associated Press, asked Mr. Garner for his views...
...Washington, Speaker of the House William Brockman Bankhead banged his foot on a bedpost, broke his toe, took to crutches...