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...Speaker Bankhead, after calling on the President last week, shook his head lugubriously about the chances of getting such a bill through Congress. For if reorganization means anything it will reduce, not increase, the number of jobs, and new jobseekers as well as old jobholders will be around the necks of Congressmen...
Said Speaker Bankhead sourly: "Every member of the Cabinet and every bureau chief will bring pressure to bear on their friends in Congress...
...issue at stake was which way Pennsylvania, apparently the pivotal delegation, should vote for the next Democratic Leader of the House of Representatives. Since the Majority Leader always can claim to be the next Speaker, and since Speaker William Bankhead is not a well man, the Leadership of the next Congress is doubly important to the man who gets it and to the Administration...
...this important post there are two serious contenders. One is Tammany's John Joseph O'Connor of Manhattan, brother of Franklin Roosevelt's former law partner, 13 years a member of Congress, chairman of the all-important Rules Committee. During the last Congress Representative Bankhead, then Leader, was ill so much that Mr. O'Connor handled the duties of Leader for weeks at a time. When Speaker Byrns suddenly died in the last days of the session, Mr. Bankhead was promptly elected to succeed him, but the stormy question of whether Mr. O'Connor should...
Reflected Glory-for Tallulah Bankhead fans...