Word: bankheads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prospect of economy rested chiefly on Franklin Roosevelt's intention of keeping Congressmen from voting funds for new schemes, on the unanimous feeling of such legislative leaders as Vice President Garner, Senators Byrnes and Harrison, Representatives Doughton, Rayburn and Speaker Bankhead, that the Budget must be balanced and new taxes not imposed. But the prospect of economy was not for any material reduction in expenses. It was for holding expenses at about present levels...
...Speaker Bankhead's 63rd birthday, the Wagner Act's Constitutional "birthday", the President telephoned the Alabaman: "Many happy returns of the day to you, and incidentally, it's a pretty good...
...mention Sit-Downs to me," said Chairman O'Connor when he left the White House. A few hours later his Committee astounded Washington by reporting out the Dies resolution for prompt House action. "I don't predict what action the House may take," said Speaker Bankhead, "but admittedly there is strong opposition to Sit-Down strikes on the part of the membership." That sentiment, if unchecked, promised the incredible spectacle of John L. Lewis following the path of bankers, stockbrokers and utilities magnates to a Congressional witness chair, there to have his inmost secrets exposed to public view...
Next morning in Washington's Union Station his wife, a couple of grandchildren, his Secretary of State and Attorney General welcomed him back to the front of Political action. That afternoon he was closeted with Vice President Garner, Speaker Bankhead and Leader Rayburn of the House, Leader Robinson of the Senate. When they emerged Senator Robinson declared that the Sit-Down situation had passed its crisis. Mr. Garner said: "I am deaf, dumb and blind." Paterfamilias Roosevelt took his family to church on Easter, cast a beneficent smile on the Easter Monday egg-rolling for 53,000 children...
...four years he had given one of their number an exclusive story. Because the President was believed to have "inspired" the Krock story, even read its proof, some newshawks wondered whether the "John" of the anecdote should not have been "Arthur." Others suggested it was John Nance Garner, John Bankhead, or perhaps John Doe. Secretary Stephen Early said he did not know who "John...