Word: bankheads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which was postponed to this week. It did not cause him to cancel a chat with Acting Budget Director Daniel Bell, which took place in his private quarters in the White House. Early this week he called in Vice President Garner, Senate Majority Leader Barkley, Speaker of the House Bankhead and House Majority Leader Rayburn to discuss Congressional developments...
...still unpredictable last week but two things at least looked certain. One was that under the stimulus of Recession, Congress was likely to show an independence toward the White House unprecedented since 1933. The other was that Vice President John Nance Garner in the Senate and Speaker William Brockman Bankhead in the House were going to have their hands full making Congress do much of anything before it moves to adjourn, presumably about...
...seven little TVAs throughout the land-was being extensively modified to the prospective advantage of private utility companies and, according to leaders in both Houses last week, was "still in the exploratory stage." Exploration was being conducted by the House Rivers and Harbors Committee from which Speaker Bankhead last week said he expected a report "sooner than anticipated...
...authority so effectively as to give the job a lively tradition of being second in importance only to the Presidency itself. Since the departure to the Senate of John Nance Garner the speakership has suffered a woeful decline in prestige. Old Henry T. Rainey and gangling Joe Byrns, Speaker Bankhead's predecessors under the New Deal, were not men to make the job what it had been theretofore-that of a boss, for whom the House Majority Leader functioned as a sort of floor operative. Furthermore, under the New Deal, with lump sum appropriations to the President, the patronage...
Spade-calling (TiME, Aug. 22, 1932), bronze-haired Tallulah Bankhead, famed for her heavy-lidded sophistication, has been in the theatre since she was 16. Longest Bankhead run on a Broadway stage was Reflected Glory (1936), 127 performances. Shortest: (see above...