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...done for their girls, Father Cox had Gene sworn in as his House page, for that one day. She earned a U. S. Treasury check for $4 for her 2 hours, 33 minutes of "work." At Washington's Market School, where the girls envy her acquaintance with Speaker Bankhead's precocious daughter Tallulah, Gene Cox can now boast that she was the first girl ever to be a page in Congress...
...Speaker Bankhead: "I feel sure that the appointment will be entirely satisfactory to the people...
...Speaker Bankhead of the House called on the President to discuss legislation, emerged to say that the emphasis will be on national defense, especially in the air. Another report led the New York Times to publish the headline of the week...
...this type of a party." Said Tugboat Minnie: "My feet hurt. ... Do you think I should have let myself in for this stunt?" Twenty-five-year-old Lindley Beckworth, newly elected Representative from Texas and youngest member of Congress, called at the House to pay his respects to Speaker Bankhead. Exclaimed the chief doorkeeper: "I thought you were one of my new page boys." In the New York Times's, Public Notices column appeared an ad signed by Manhattan Producer John Golden...
...farm leaders few are so influential as the Federation's burly president, Alabama Cotton Grower Edward Asbury O'Neal III. Last week to the Federation's convention in New Orleans went Ed O'Neal's farm-minded neighbor, Senator John H. Bankhead of Alabama, to propose a plan for disposing of an estimated cotton carryover of 13,600,000 bales. The plan: to get farmers to reduce their estimated 1939 production of 12,000,000 bales by 4,000,000 bales, in return for being given 4,000,000 of the 7,000,000 bales...