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This fight in Texas is separating the men from the boys. Governor Shivers, with his million-dollar farms and all, is proving to be just an office boy for the oil cartel and the big rich. The men, like Sam Rayburn and Wright Patman, are standing up for the people...
...Representative Wright Patman, going all out for Stevenson and Sparkman, was making plans to stump the state...
...Iowa Democratic Chairman Jake More said he is personally "very friendly" to Oklahoma's Senator Robert Kerr. ¶ Senator Kerr's Oklahoma colleague, Senator Mike Monroney, said he thinks House Speaker Sam Rayburn is "a natural" for the job. Another Rayburn man: Texas Representative Wright Patman...
...Sale. The biggest surprise came for Patman; not one of the experts would buy his theory that the President ought to have control over the FRB. Even John Snyder rejected it. Wrote he: "I do not suggest that the President should be given any [such] powers...
...Patman had done nothing else, he had got all of the arguments-and justifications-out in the open, where his committee can shoot at them next week when it opens hearings to try to bring the Treasury and FRB together in a coherent monetary and credit policy...