Word: vfw
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Dates: during 1935-1935
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...Patman bill is scheduled to be brought to the House floor. Similar preferential position awaits the Bonus in the Senate, as the result of an Administration deal with Bonuseers on the tax bill (TIME, Aug. 26). Last week it was reported that the Legion and the VFW. having agreed to get behind a single bill with no mention of money-raising methods, had also won Representative Patman over to their view point. But no matter which way Bonuseer Patman twists, observers agreed that with elections only a few months distant a Bonus bill satisfactory to the veterans will be rushed...
...sound" means, i. e. borrowing. The alternative, Patman Bill, was sponsored by the Veterans of Foreign Wars, an older, smaller organization, which in recent years has found that the most headway is gained by always outbidding the Legion by longer and more radical demands upon the Government. Hence the VFW, Patman Bill, demanded not only cash but greenbacks...
Naturally Commander James E. Van Zandt of the VFW had as his field generals in the Senate not only the loudest inflationist, Elmer Thomas, but the loudest demagog, Huey Long. Legion Commander Frank N. Belgrano Jr. had Post-Commander, now Senator, Bennett Champ Clark as his floor leader. The two forces were opposed to each other because of rivalry, and because the Legionaire-Senator Clark, who is no end proud of his parliamentary astuteness, knew well enough that there were four to six pro-Bonus Senators, willing to vote for the "sound" Vinson Bill who would not vote...
...roll was called on the Patman Bill the ten Senators who had voted to substitute it for the Vinson Bill flopped back to vote against it as it was approved 55-to-33. So Legion Commander Belgrano retired from the gallery in glum defeat. Commander Van Zandt of the VFW left the gallery in triumph and proclaimed a "decisive victory." But it was decisive only as a victory of the VFW over the American Legion. Senator Robinson and his Administration friends were left, grinning, in possession of the field, sure that the President's veto could now be upheld...