Word: joes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have used their 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...
...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 Majority Leader in 1935. When he succeeded Joe Byrns, William Bankhead laid down his own requirements for a Speaker: "I should say that the most important is that the Speaker should be a parliamentarian. The second is that ... he should act impartially. . . . And he should have a sense of humor...
...Belmont Park and Miami's Hialeah. Less familiar facts about Sportsman Widener are that his Lynnewood Hall contains the choicest private collection of Old Masters in the U. S., that he himself is a cultural servant of Philadelphia. In that capacity last week 64-year-old "Joe" Widener became the centre of one of the best comedies of art controversy in years...
...numerous discs it cautiously labeled "race records" and ceased issuing about 1929, include: St. Louis Blues, simple and powerful, and Reckless Blues, accompanied by Louis Armstrong on the cornet and Fred Longshaw on a portable organ. Fletcher Henderson, who played the piano for her Weeping Willow Blues, with Joe Smith on the cornet, calls this the greatest blues record ever made. Careless Love is W. C. Handy's arrangement of what is almost a U. S. folk song. Trombone Cholly, with the late Trombonist Charlie Green playing among Bessie Smith's "Blue Boys," is a classic...
...jump at the answer, or you'll get fooled. We've given you Joe and Shaver merely as a sample answer. We might have said Shaver and Louis. You've got to think it out for yourself...