Word: patman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the Senate had brushed the Harrison Bill aside the choice between the Vinson ("sound") Bill and the Patman (greenback) Bill had to be made. Before the vote was taken Bennett Clark got to his feet, declared: "All I say is that this is a naked issue between those who favor the authorization by Congress of the full payment of the Bonus and those who favor tying up the proposition . . . with an entirely separate subject [greenbacks]." The inflationists took him at his word. Elmer Thomas, Huey Long and friends who had voted for the Vinson Bill a few minutes before...
...outcome of the roll call became evident, Senator Clark's face grew red with anger. When Senator Wheeler's name was called, and a voice voted for the Patman Bill, Bennett Clark jumped up spluttering: "Point of Order, Mr. President! The Senator from Montana is not in the Chamber but the Senator from Louisiana, Mr. Long, answered for him.. I distinctly heard...
Then the roll was called on the Patman Bill the ten Senators who had voted to substitute it for the Vinson Bill flopped back to vote against it as it was approved 55-to-33. So Legion Commander Belgrano retired from the gallery in glum defeat. Commander Van Zandt of the VFW left the gallery in triumph and proclaimed a "decisive victory." But it was decisive only as a victory of the VFW over the American Legion. Senator Robinson and his Administration friends were left, grinning, in possession of the field, sure that the President's veto could...
...time thus gained veterans were to put pressure on the President to sign the bill, on Senators to gain the necessary votes to override a veto. Commander Van Zandt asked "a million Americans''* to demand the Patman Bill's final enactment. Commander Belgrano, beaten but wishing to retire from the field with the honors of war, called on Legionaries for similar demonstrations. Telegrams at the rate of 250 an hour flooded Washington, 15,000 were delivered at the White House one day. And Father Coughlin who takes credit for having defeated the World Court, tried his influence...
...Patman Bonus bill, which President Roosevelt was in good faith bound to veto. Priest Coughlin predicted: "It would be political suicide for the President to veto the Patman bill. He is too clever a politician for that. If he does veto it-." The priest shrugged a disclaimer for the President's fate in that event...