Word: bankheads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...done for their girls, Father Cox had Gene sworn in as his House page, for that one day. She earned a U. S. Treasury check for $4 for her 2 hours, 33 minutes of "work." At Washington's Market School, where the girls envy her acquaintance with Speaker Bankhead's precocious daughter Tallulah, Gene Cox can now boast that she was the first girl ever to be a page in Congress...
...fortify his control over the Senate, Majority Leader Barkley got three more New Dealers (Bankhead, Minton, Green) appointed to the Steering Committee, two more (Schwartz, Smathers) appointed to the Policy Committee...
Three days after Mamba's Daughters opened, 19 notables-including Actresses Judith Anderson, Tallulah Bankhead and Dorothy Gish, Scene-Designer Norman Bel Geddes, Author Carl Van Vechten, and Publishers Cass Canfield and John Farrar -ran a testimonial in the N. Y. Times...
...Speaker Bankhead: "I feel sure that the appointment will be entirely satisfactory to the people...
...this type of a party." Said Tugboat Minnie: "My feet hurt. ... Do you think I should have let myself in for this stunt?" Twenty-five-year-old Lindley Beckworth, newly elected Representative from Texas and youngest member of Congress, called at the House to pay his respects to Speaker Bankhead. Exclaimed the chief doorkeeper: "I thought you were one of my new page boys." In the New York Times's, Public Notices column appeared an ad signed by Manhattan Producer John Golden...