Word: pats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...left straddling the proverbial fence. In view of recent developments in Washington their confusion can well be appreciated. Vice-president Garner, and others close to the President, are reported to be in favor of the bonus bill. Mr. Garner has expressed the opinion that currency inflation--which the Pat-man Bill would effect--would at this time be advantageous to the country's economic welfare. Other Senators are asking why, if the President is really in earnest about the veto, didn't he discuss the subject with some of those super-politicians with whom he spent the last week...
...have been passed by a combination of the progressives of all parties and by Democrats loyal to the New Deal because it bears their party label. Many a Democrat has put party loyalty above his own convictions but today such loyalists as Vice President Garner, Senators Joe Robinson and Pat Harrison find it hard to hold together the coalition of New Dealers and Democrats. For at heart the biggest bloc of Democrats still prefers states' rights to centralization of power. Last week's debate on the anti-lynching bill reminded them again. The slowing down of legislation...
...Civil War was fought and shortly Latin School had its own private fight. The school committee wanted to give it a broad, up-to-date program of studies. When the headmaster stood pat, the committee revenged itself by making fantastic changes in the curriculum, and the school went into a slump. After the headmaster died, his successor appeased the committee by adding new courses but left the classics in the saddle...
...words the Administration last week offered veterans a new bonus of a round half-billion dollars provided they would desist, at least for a time, from hounding the Government for cash. The offer appeared to sprout out of a White House heart-to-heart between President Roosevelt and Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi early in the week...
...Anacostia section of Washington, Frederick Patterson was the last of four children. His father died when he was a few months old, his mother less than two years later. His sister Wilhelmina took him with her when she went to teach at Prairie View College, Tex. There, young "Pat" spent his time tagging after the football and baseball teams, getting his ears boxed for being a nuisance. Because he was a professor's brother, he could cut classes at will. When he studied, he studied hard, at agriculture and veterinary surgery. Later at Iowa State College, classmates found...