Word: bankheads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Attended the State funeral of Speaker Bankhead; with members of his Cabinet and top administrators left on a special train for the Jasper, Ala. services, and announced that Henry Wallace, who defeated Bankhead for the Democratic Vice-Presidential nomination, would also attend...
...Speaker of the House since 1936 has been William Brockman Bankhead of Alabama.* His way of rule was not the harsh tsarism of Joe Cannon (1903-11), the rough-&-tumble domination of Nick Longworth (1925-31). Partly from natural bent, partly of necessity, he used the gentler arts of persuasion, parliamentary device, friendship. His pre-New Deal predecessors had special patronage to dispense, and patronage was power. Franklin Roosevelt took away most of the Speaker's patronage, leaving William Bankhead with no club to hold, no favors to give...
Much as Republicans like to talk about the Relief billions that finance the "New Deal Party," the actual Democratic Party may well have to nickel along this year. Last week, as Campaign Chieftain Ed Flynn busied himself lining up Midwest Democratic leaders and drafting Speaker William Brockman Bankhead to run the Southern sector of the campaign (headquarters in Birmingham), Democrats learned that their party's war chest is down to a minuscule $70,000. Candidate Henry Wallace planned to save money by touring rural districts in an Oldsmobile borrowed from his secretary, Jim Le Cron. Meantime Candidate Franklin Roosevelt...
...Many were the hybrids which defied precise definition. Example: the Trade Unions' Committee for Peace, which sent a phalanx of determined young women to Capitol Hill. Whatever else these pacific Amazons accomplished, they pungently reported on their interviews with politicos in travail: On Speaker Bankhead ("I said, 'Well, what about the conscription bill?' He said, 'I don't know anything about it. I haven't even read it'"); Henry Wallace ("He was very uneasy and begged us to excuse him"); G. O. P.'s Vice-Presidential Nominee Charles L. McNary ("He said...
...Georgia theatres last week, for the first time in the memory of man, newsreel shots of a Republican candi date drew loud applause. In Alabama (which missed going Republican by only 7,000 votes in 1928) the State's first Willkie club was formed in Jasper, Speaker William Bankhead's home town, and Willkie's newsreel face was cheered...