Word: nut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...adverse legislation this year. Within a few weeks, either Patman's banking committee or a blue-ribbon commission of legislators, Administration officials and experts is expected to open major hearings on the entire U.S. financial structure. All this constitutes a personal triumph for Patman, a self-styled "money nut," who had long been regarded by many critics as an ineffectual scold or a crank advocate of easy money for everybody. Today nobody laughs at Patman, least of all the bankers. "The time has come for me," says Patman in his misleadingly benign way, "and I'm going right...