Word: patman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having frittered away their energies last session in wrangling over whether Bonus cash should be raised by orthodox Treasury methods (Vinson-American Legion bill) or by printing greenbacks (Patman-Veterans of Foreign Wars bill), cash-hungry veterans saw their hopes go glimmering when the Senate by eight votes sustained President Roosevelt's veto of the Patman bill (TIME, June 3). When Legionaries roundly hissed Bonuseer Patman at their convention in St. Louis four months later, the wranglers began to see the light of compromise...
...Capitol in person and making it stick. Whereas all other Presidents have been content to let Congressional clerks read out their objections to bad measures, nothing less than the rostrum of the House of Representatives would serve him as an eminence from which to thunder his disapproval of the Patman Bill to prepay the soldier Bonus with printing press money...
...Joined the House in sending the Patman Bonus bill to the President for a certain veto...
Reports from Washington indicate that the President's veto of the Patman Bill will probably be upheld by the Senate. But the bonus champions indicate they have just begun to fight. If the Patman measure does fail, other bonus bills will be waiting to be rushed through--this time as a "rider" attached to one of the administration's pet appropriation measures. These new bills, it is rumored, would give the Precident greater freedom in choosing means of raising the two billion dollars. He would be allowed to draw from the four billion relief fund, or borrow the necessary cash...
Senator Bulkley of Ohio had dared to defy Coughlin-inspired telegrams, vote against the Patman bill. "That's his death warrant!" screeched Priest Coughlin. The audience booed approval. Swaying and flailing his arms like a college cheerleader, the priest kept the boo going on & on, finally stopped it with an imperious gesture...