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Judge Shackleford was for many years chairman of the Committee on Roads in the House, and is the author of the Shackleford-Bankhead Road Law-the really first big movement in the direction of the wonderful highways the country enjoys today...
...Bankhead-Shackleford bill (Federal Aid Road Act), basis for subsequent legislation of the kind, was approved July 11, 1916. It called for $75,000,000 in five annual installments, beginning with $5,000,000 for fiscal 1917 and increasing $5,000,000 each year, to be matched dollar-for-dollar by the States to build roads mutually agreed upon by the State highway departments and the Secretary of Agriculture. The total of Federal aid extended in fiscal 1917-30 inclusive: $915,000,000. Mileage designated: 193,652. Mileage completed...
Bitterly, passionately Alabama's Senator James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin harangued his colleagues last week on this theme: that the election last November at which he was defeated by John Hollis Bankhead was conducted with dishonesty...
Actress Tallulah Bankhead, daughter of Congressman William Brockman...
...Bankhead of Alabama and niece of Alabama's new Senator John Hollis Bankhead, returned to the U. S. after eight consecutive years of playing on the London stage. Said she: "Oh, Englishmen are divine! Just divine! But I have seen and been with them so long the perspective gets dim. Now that I am away, I see Englishmen as even more divine than when I left them...