Word: bankheads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fear that the party would be left without its one big vote-getter, the professionals grumbled as they went to Chicago's Stadium on the first night, to sit on the red-painted chairs in the vast arena, hear the old Hamlet of the House, Speaker William B. Bankhead, elocute his meandering way through half an hour of the corniest Southern oratory most of them had ever heard...
...There was one more river to cross. Seventeen men had been directly or indirectly promised the Vice-Presidency, or boosted for it, by some member of Hopkins & Co. These included: Cordell Hull, William B. Bankhead, James Byrnes. William O. Douglas, Robert H. Jackson, Louis Johnson, Henry A. Wallace, Culbert Olson, Lloyd C. Stark, Sam Rayburn, Jesse H. Jones. Scott Lucas. Paul V. McNutt, Charles Sawyer...
Only Speaker Bankhead, whose candidacy could not be serious, Henry Wallace and Paul McNutt were left in the race. It was McNutt's chance-a chance to wreak doubly-sweet revenge on the New Dealers who knifed his Presidential candidacy...
People wondering how the campaign battle lines would shape got one indication from Wendell Willkie: that he wants to have it out, toe-to-toe, with Franklin Roosevelt. Twice last week, Candidate Willkie came out slugging. First blow was in reply to Keynoter Bankhead's suggestion that Mr. Willkie, his power-company past, the Republicans, and the boom-mad '20s were all tied up in one dirty package. Said Nominee Willkie: "I found myself in complete agreement with Speaker Bankhead in his condemnation of the speculative orgies of the 1920s. ... I have always thought that such speculation...
...hocus-pocus of bands and bunting, platform committees and "keynote" oratory, the forms and panoply had no more meaning than they had had at Philadelphia, before Wendell Willkie and his freshening forces swept the Republicans' fog away. To the Convention's keynoter, Alabama's William Brockman Bankhead, the 1940 campaign seemed to be nothing more than a necessary footnote. Said he: "The minds of the American people are now so deeply engrossed in . . . the preservation of our established order of life and institutions, that they will have no tolerance for the superficial banalities of politics. An election...