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...finesse was only one ingredient in the lending measure's passage. November defeats eliminated not only Douglas, the most intransigent proponent of the bill, but also Banking and Currency Chairman A. Willis Robertson of Virginia, its stubbornest opponent. Robertson's successor as chairman, Alabama's John Sparkman, proved more tractable...
...amiss. New Jersey Representative William B. Widnall, ranking Republican member of the House Banking Committee, last month voiced fears that financial strains may inflict "permanent damage" on the housing industry and "lead to an intolerable housing shortage in the years ahead." Last week in the Senate, Alabama Democrat John Sparkman's housing subcommittee resumed what promises to be a lengthy search for cures. Most of the witnesses agreed that mortgages have become the chronic invalid of finance because of structural flaws in the mortgage market. "Under present regulations of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, the growth in savings...
Senator John Sparkman (D-La.), Chairman of the Banking and Currency Committee, called last night for an urban renewal program based on a partnership between local and federal governments...
...John Sparkman (D-Ala.) will speak on legislating for the city at 8:30 p.m. tonight in Burr...
...Democrats or Republicans put up a sufficiently conservative presidential candidate in 1968, George told a nationwide television audience, "you can look for us to be in your state all the way from Maine to California." Ironically, the Wallace presence atop the party ticket helped sweep Democratic Senator John J. Sparkman, a liberal by Alabama standards and no admirer of the Georgeen gambit, to an unexpectedly easy win over Republican John Grenier, 36, who masterminded Goldwater's Southern sweep...