Word: bankheads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five weeks since have been just long enough to include the first serious decline in U. S. business since 1933. To the notable opportunities for controversy already foreseen for the special session, the slump added another. This week, when Vice President Garner in the Senate and Speaker William Bankhead in the House thumped their gavels for the first time since last August 21, they were as uncertain as the rest of the U. S. what the session would bring forth. First thing it brought forth was a message from the President...
Antony and Cleopatra (adapted by Professor William Strunk Jr. from William Shakespeare; produced by Laurence Rivers, Inc.). Last summer 35-year-old Actress Tallulah Bankhead, Alabama-born daughter of Speaker William Brockman Bankhead of the House of Representatives, married Actor John Emery and announced that she was "going to New York to raise hell." Nobody imagined, however, that Shakespeare was to be included in the party. But last week, after long preparation and a road tour, Tallulah swept into Manhattan's Mansfield Theatre in the traditional gilded brassiere and diaphanous pantalettes of the serpent of the Nile. After watching...
...fond of Bankhead But I'd love to meet Tallulah -But that's off the record...
Married. Actress Tallulah Bankhead, 35, daughter of Speaker William Brockman Bankhead of the House of Representatives; to Actor John Emery, 32; in Jasper...
President Roosevelt asked them what they had done so far to justify Congress' seven months sojourn in Washington. Speaker Bankhead started to rattle off a list of bills passed-bills for the most part neither important nor publicly known. The President squelched him with a roar of laughter. Presently the visitors came out and gave the press a list of five bills to be acted on before adjournment...