Word: patman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Representative Wright Patman, puffy-cheeked, bespectacled leader of the House Inflationists, had his own explanation for last week's gold shipments: It was all a plot by the "big bankers" to scare Congressional Inflationists, since issuance of printing press money would cause the bankers to lose "some prestige." But, cried the chubby Texan, "Any shell game does not go with...
...across from the Treasury but in the cloak rooms of the Capitol. Last week inflationary sentiment in Congress burned brighter than at any time since 1933. Congressmen hate the thought of voting taxes in an election year. Led by Oklahoma's Thomas in the Senate and Texas' Patman in the House, inflationists and silverites loudly demanded new currency by the billion to pay the Government's bills. Schemes ranged from use of the $3,000,000,000 of "greenbacks" authorized in the so-called Thomas Amendment to the 1933 Emergency Farm Relief Bill, to the issuance...
...Oakland, Calif, from Washington went Texas' chubby Representative Wright Patman, loud friend of the Bonus, loud foe of chain stores. At the invitation and expense of the Allied Independent Merchants & Home Owned Businesses of California, Representative Patman crossed the Continent to get into a hot fight over California's new chain store tax. The Independent Merchants understood that, in the absence of the Press, Mr. Patman would give their annual convention a fighting speech against chains. Mr. Patman understood that he would be met at the station by a delegation of Independent Merchants and a band. Stepping expectantly...
...Today Patman and Vinson, the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars have setting the difference about the method of dividing the spoils. The new promising near being exerted as Congress is more concerted, more powerful than ever before. It is no longer a question of Congress gracefully going through the motions and then pointing to a Roosevelt or Hoover veto and declaring its impotency. It is perhaps reasonable to count upon another Roosevelt veto but the question is whether one out of three of our Senators is sane, staunch, . . . and patriotic...
...days after Congress meets on Jan. 3 the Patman bill is scheduled to be brought to the House floor. Similar preferential position awaits the Bonus in the Senate, as the result of an Administration deal with Bonuseers on the tax bill (TIME, Aug. 26). Last week it was reported that the Legion and the VFW. having agreed to get behind a single bill with no mention of money-raising methods, had also won Representative Patman over to their view point. But no matter which way Bonuseer Patman twists, observers agreed that with elections only a few months distant a Bonus...