Word: patly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gentlemen, the Bolsheviks of the type you mention will man every committee of this Congress long before the Republican party is returned to power under your leadership." Stormed Mr. Lemke: "I'm not begging anything from the damned reactionary Republicans." ¶ Speaker Bankhead, Majority Leader Rayburn, Majority Whip Pat Boland picked 15 assistant whips to help keep the 332 Democrats of the House in order. Rules given the subwhips: Four of them must be on the floor of the House at all sessions; all of them when important measures are under consideration; they must shush the Majority whenever...
...budget message 24 hours before he sent it to the Capitol (see p. 16). His third message, on Government Reorganization, which goes to Congress this week, required two preliminary sessions. Sunday afternoon he spent an hour and a half priming Vice President Garner, Senators Joe Robinson and Pat Harrison, Speaker Bankhead, Representatives Rayburn, Buchanan and Doughton on the Re-organization Plan so that they would be prepared to defend it from the first moment that opposition reared its ugly head...
...establish this contention in California was another matter. Moreover, the embattled wives by this time were being flanked by an outsider. It looked as if the entire kitty might be snatched by one of Ochsner's old partners, Frank C. ("Pat") Daugherty, a big, breezy Pasadena oilman who had been properly done in by the vague geologist...
...Pat Daugherty was by no means the only outsider who laid claim to the Kettleman Kitty. As far back as 1910 Ochsner had been wildcatting on the public domain around Kettleman. Ghosts from this early period arose in the courts by droves. Some 50 people from around Fresno, Calif., known as the Morrow Group, sued for 50% on the ground that they helped Ochsner assemble the claims. Another roup on the same ground asked for 20%. An Ochsner wildcatting promotion called Medallion Oil Co., which lost $100,000 for number of Wall Streeters including Bernard Mannes ("Barney") Baruch, sued...
Another category of litigation dated rom the Federal oil land leasing law of 1920, which washed out old claims. As soon as that went into effect Oilman Pat Daugherty, who learned about leasing in Texas, hopped into his big old Cadillac, turned up the road to Kettleman, staked out nearly four square miles identical with Ochsner's old claims. He offered to ile them in Ochsner's name in return for a 10% interest, which was legitimate practice, Daugherty knowing land office ropes which Ochsner did not. Indeed, Ochsner tried to file his own claims-after looking...