Word: patman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Xavier Catholic Church near the ranch, the President watched the boy being passed from one relative to another during a picture-taking session, quipped: "This is unconstitutional. It's cruel and inhuman treatment." Afterward, the President and Lady Bird flew to Texarkana for the funeral of Representative Wright Patman's wife, then made a sentimental journey to Lady Bird's birthplace at Karnack, 50 miles to the south...
Normally opposing factions were unanimous last week in praising President Johnson's appointment of 40-year-old Federal Deposit Insurance Director William W. Sherrill to the Federal Reserve Board. Texas Democrat Wright Patman, an easy-money champion, predicted that Sherrill would be a "fine member," and Charls E. Walker, executive vice president of the American Bankers Association, praised the appointee's "competence and integrity...
...with reluctance, made a barebones announcement of the news. Johnson also made a point of including the information that Board Member Charles N. Shepardson, a longtime Martin supporter, will face mandatory retirement when he reaches 70 late this month. Another sour note was struck by Texas Democrat Wright Patman, chairman of the House Banking Committee and an outspoken easy-money advocate. Martin's reappointment, said Patman, will "cause this Administration much sorrow in future years...
...wipe out the gains of the past ten years." House Minority Leader Gerald Ford believes that it would be a "tragic mistake." Democratic Senators Vance Hartke of Indiana, George Smathers of Florida and William Proxmire. of Wisconsin all oppose it. The President's influential fellow Texan, Chairman Wright Patman of the House Banking Committee, flatly insists that a tax hike would plunge the U.S. into a depression...
...commercial banks for the first time to get into revenue-bond underwriting, the direct-leasing business and insurance selling. Along the way, he irritated two U.S. Presidents and obstreperously tangled with such Washington Pooh-Bahs as Robert Kennedy, William McChesney Martin, Nicholas Katzenbach, Senator John McClellan and Congressman Wright Patman-as well as leaders of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Independent Bankers Association...