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...around the rostrum. The hands of the clock (substituted for those stolen last summer) stood erect at 12 when gaunt, bushy-browed Speaker Byrns, a pink carnation in his lapel, whammed down his gavel, brought 366 magpie Members of the House to comparatively silent order. Democratic Floor Leader William Brockman ("Tallulah's Father") Bankhead, ill throughout the last session, uprose to request unanimous consent for the House to recess subject to the call of the Speaker so that President Roosevelt might deliver his address on the State of the Union to a joint session of Congress that night. That...
...Farmer-Laborite in the person of Elmer A. Benson, appointed by Minnesota's Governor Olson to succeed the late Senator Schall (see col. 1). But in many ways the most interesting new face in the 74th Congress will be that of Alabama's Representative William Brockman ("Tallulah's Father") Bankhead, who has sat in the House for 18 years. A year ago. on the day before Congress met, he was chosen Floor Leader of one of the biggest Democratic majorities in House history (TIME, Jan. 14). Same day he went to the hospital with...
Uncomfortable with a cold in his nose last week was President Roosevelt. AAAdministrator Chester Charles Davis, FERAdministrator Harry Hopkins, House Majority Leader William Brockman Bankhead also had colds. Influenza and pneumonia had incapacitated so many Government officials and employes that Washington doctors broadcast warnings of a potential epidemic...
When her father was elected Majority Leader of the House of Representatives last week, Tallulah Bankhead was the most twittery actress in all New York. She plucked up a telephone, called Washington, chirped: "Congratulations, Daddy, congratulations!" And when Majority Leader William Brockman Bankhead was carried to the Naval Hospital with a cold and indigestion day before the 74th Congress opened, Daughter Tallulah flew to the Capital, ran to his bedside. Said she as she left his room: "Daddy will be all right. I talked a blue streak and it may not have helped him any. . . . Daddy just...
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