Word: john
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newscameras, Miss Bankhead hugged Uncle John and cried: "Of course you'll vote to do something for the unemployed actors...
...replied Uncle John, "I don't think I will.' These city fellows in Congress never vote to do anything for the farmers. Sol Bloom [Representative from Manhattan] and that whole crowd always vote against the farm bills...
...Federal Theatre Project, for reasons of unnecessity, inefficiency, immorality and Communism. The same bill last week provided Congressmen with relief from their work. Into Washington swept throbbing, throaty Actress Tallulah Bankhead (The Little Foxes), chosen by FTP's friends to lobby for it because her Uncle John is Alabama's senior Senator, her father Speaker of the House...
...Senate subcommittee voted to restore life to FTP. Actress Bankhead's Uncle John telegraphed her: "I tried 24 hours to find a weak place in your masterly argument. . . . Check me off as voting for the project...
Friends of John Nance Garner quoted him as predicting, and favoring, cuts in Federal income-tax exemption from $2,500 to $1,200 for married persons, from $1,000 to $500 for single persons, to intensify tax-consciousness, curb spending...