Word: bankheads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the purchasers of serious Deckers: Actress Tallulah Bankhead (who bought a painting of Barrymore as Hamlet), art-loving Errol Flynn (who paid $500 for a deep-toned landscape entitled Before the Storm...
...dark is Manhattan's once-Great White Way that 207 actors and actresses (including Fredric March, Helen Hayes, Tallulah Bankhead) last week penned a frightened petition to Actors' Equity, deplored ". . . a wave of crime known as 'muggings,' " asked for police protection. The petition complained: "[Mugging] is not only affecting the safety of the citizen, but constitutes a serious threat to the theatrical business...
...Administration mustered all its Congressional forces to hold tight against the farm bloc's Pace Bill, which would tack farm-labor costs to agricultural prices, or of the Bankhead Bill (already vetoed by the President, but still resur-rectible), which would raise parity prices by pretending that Government benefit payments are not really farm income...
...farm bloc was convinced, for the moment at least, that higher farm prices would do farmers less good financially than they would John Lewis as an argument for higher wages. The Bankhead Bill was sent back to committee, to serve only as a club in case the Administration weakened to Lewis. The Pace Bill also languished in committee. Farm Lobbyist Ed O'Neal protested that he was "dumfounded" by the President's new price orders, but his bright old eyes twinkled...
...Danger. Franklin Roosevelt blamed the rise in the cost of living mainly on "our failure to bring food costs under control." The Bankhead bill, he declared, would compound that failure. "Under it ... the price of sugar would rise 1½? a pound, the price of bread might go up ? a loaf. . . . The price of corn could rise almost 10% which . . . would certainly call forth a demand for higher prices for hogs and livestock, poultry, eggs, milk. . . . These price increases . . . might swell the cost of living more than...