Word: bankheads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...call to stay in session (with temporary recesses for the G. O. P. and Democratic conventions) was too loud for the Administration to ignore. The President found it expedient to deny that he had ever bade Congress be done and be gone. Sam Rayburn and House Speaker William Bankhead, who had been preaching adjournment by June 22, also gave up. Said Mr. Bankhead, while Sam Rayburn nodded his homely old head in agreement: "I think that we might as well be candid about it. I don't think that we can adjourn as planned...
...added firmly, was "above party, class, creed, point of view or personal advantage. Like electric light, it goes everywhere." Following the usual Buchmanite technique, MRA headquarters issued a list of current MRA "endorsers."-Among them: President Roosevelt, Admiral Byrd, Secretary of War Woodring, Secretary of the Navy Edison, Speaker Bankhead, David Dubinsky (International Ladies Garment Workers), Dan J. Tobin (International Brotherhood of Teamsters), Paul...
Bailey, grumpily, but with 26 votes; Michigan's Highway Commissioner Murray Van Wagoner, 38 votes; Iowa's Henry A. Wallace, 22 votes; Alabama's Speaker William Bankhead, 22 votes; South Carolina's Governor Burnet Maybank, 16 votes...
...Florence Bankhead, stepmother of Tallulah. wife of the Speaker of the House, admitted putting finishing touches on the Howard Chandler Christy portrait of her which hangs in the Bankhead apartment. Said she: "I added lipstick. The lips were too pale...
Thus Mr. Hatch's foes included Virginia's Glass & Byrd, bosses of The Old Dominion's tightly controlled courthouse crowd; Mississippi's Bilbo & Harrison, Alabama's Bankhead & Hill; Arkansas's Caraway & Miller, South Carolina's Byrnes & Smith, Nevada's Pittman, Oklahoma's Lee & Thomas-all of them members of powerful State organizations, and therefore mighty fighters for the status...