Word: potman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from Potman's Switch. The bill capped a period of considerable confusion, if not chaos, in Washington over policy toward bank mergers. The problem was that, with merger applications coming in at the rate of 160 a year, the legislative branch and the judiciary were unable to agree on ground rules for approving them. The Manufacturers Hanover move, like other mergers of the time, was cleared with three regulatory agencies, the Federal Reserve, the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. The three agencies, following Congressional dictates set down in the bank merger...
Greeting a lady acquaintance in Tucson, Hubert Horatio Humphrey, 53, leaned to kiss her, and she drew back startled. "Don't worry," he joked. "I'm not the one with the cold." He was almost the only one without it. Texas Congressman Wright Potman, 71, announced proudly from Bethesda Naval Hospital that he had a cold "just like the President's." Oklahoma Senator Mike Monroney, 62, checked into Walter Reed Army Hospital with laryngitis, followed by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, 48, with a "respiratory infection." Pennsylvania's Governor William Scranton, 47, and New York...