Word: patman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Loud Congressman Wright Patman of Texas telegraphed hundreds of his colleagues, suggested they appear in Washington Sept. 15, hold a rump meeting of , the House, agitate for relief legislation until President Hoover heeds their demands for a special session...
...cotton planters and agricultural officials heaped on the Board's proposal. Most economists figured that crop destruction might help the cotton merchant but not the planter himself. One Georgia legislator proposed that "we plow under every third member of the Farm Board." Counter proposals deluged the Board. Congressman Patman of Texas suggested that it destroy its own 1,300,000-bale holdings first as an example to the South. Senator Caraway of Arkansas advised the Board to buy up half of the 1931 crop in return for a pledge that the South will plant no cotton in 1932. Within...
...House and Senate Bonus vote was a triumph for at least three individuals- Democratic Representative Wright Patman of Texas who started the prairie fire in Congress, National Commander Ralph O'Neil whose American Legion blew the blaze bigger, and Owen D. Young who deserted Big Business' fire-fighting squad...
Tall angular Congressman Patman, 37, a War machine gunner, early last winter began his agitation for Bonus-cashing. A missionary Baptist, he spread his gospel of full and immediate payments through the House when his friends assured him he was only crying in a wilderness. He gave the Republican House leadership a bad scare when he got almost 150 signatures to a petition to force the Bonus bill out of committee and into open debate. His converts gave the Battle for the Bonus its first real strength...
Then, fortnight ago, the American Legion reversed its stand and came plumping out for the bill (TIME, Feb. 2). Forthwith Mr. Patman got some more signatures. Also a storm of counter and compromise proposals burst in both House and Senate. Three proposals stood out: 1) to pay the present value; 2) to pay the present value plus 25%; 3) to increase the present loan or collateral value up to 50% of the face value...