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When Illinois' Church started to enlarge on his eagerness to enact tax legislation which had not yet been drafted. Leader Rayburn, fearful of what was coming, appealed to Speaker Bankhead: "I did not yield to the gentleman to make a speech...
...seven little TVAs throughout the land-was being extensively modified to the prospective advantage of private utility companies and, according to leaders in both Houses last week, was "still in the exploratory stage." Exploration was being conducted by the House Rivers and Harbors Committee from which Speaker Bankhead last week said he expected a report "sooner than anticipated...
...authority so effectively as to give the job a lively tradition of being second in importance only to the Presidency itself. Since the departure to the Senate of John Nance Garner the speakership has suffered a woeful decline in prestige. Old Henry T. Rainey and gangling Joe Byrns, Speaker Bankhead's predecessors under the New Deal, were not men to make the job what it had been theretofore-that of a boss, for whom the House Majority Leader functioned as a sort of floor operative. Furthermore, under the New Deal, with lump sum appropriations to the President, the patronage...
Total Congressional service of the Bankheads-including John and William's father, Senator John Hollis Bankhead- is a U. S. family record of 61 years. Of these William Bankhead accounts for 21. When, at his mother's request, he gave up an adolescent desire to go on the stage, spent two years in the State Legislature, got into Congress in 1917, William Bankhead's advice from his father was to learn the rules. He followed it, remained an amiable, well-liked but not particularly influential member of the House until despite a serious illness he was made...
Last year, Speaker Bankhead lived up to his own advice as well as he followed his father's. This winter, after nearly three months' holiday at Jasper, Ala. (pop. 5,313) in Walker County which contains a town, a highway and a Resettlement project named for the Bankheads. Speaker Bankhead returned to Washington better equipped than he was last year for the rigors of a job that can be as rigorous as any in the land. Speaker Bankhead's hobby is collecting gavels used by his predecessors, of which he has six, belonging to Speakers Clark, Gillett...