Word: vinson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the American Legion lobby, most potent in Washington, once more demonstrated its power. Of 25 Bonus bills on which it has been conducting hearings, the House Ways & Means Committee voted null to report out the Legion-sponsored Vinson Bill. Into committee discard went the famed Patman Bill, long House Bill No. 1, backed by inflationists and Veterans of Foreign Wars, twice passed by the House and rejected by the Senate. Down from his place as the House's No. 1 Bonuseer stepped Texas' Wright Patman, to be replaced by Kentucky's Frederick Moore Vinson...
...long-faced Bonuseer Vinson, 45, was still in an officers' training school when the War ended. A lawyer with a vast distaste for politics, he first went to the House in 1923, lost his seat in 1929, returned in 1931. Matter-of-fact and publicity-shy, he remained an inconspicuous Congressman until his Bonus bill projected him into the headlines...
Theoretically, the Vinson Bill is a piece of legislation regularly originated and sponsored by an elected representative of the people of the U. S. Actually, it is child & chattel of the American Legion. Of that fact, in the final hearings before the Committee vote last week, the Legion's Commander Frank Nicholas Belgrano Jr. and its No. 1 Lobbyist John Thomas Taylor made no bones. "Our bill," said they, and "the American Legion ... its bill. . . ." But when the question came up of how to raise the $2,137,975,157 called for by the bill, Lobbyist Taylor modestly referred...
...Georgia's Representative Vinson, as chairman of the House Naval Affairs Committee, got the Macon named for the biggest town in his district...
...They plan to spend $140,000,000 next year in the construction of twenty-four vessels of war--one aircraft carrier, two light cruisers, six submarines, three heavy destroyers, and twelve light destroyers. The new ships will bring the United States up to treaty strength in accordance with the Vinson Act passed by Congress in the former session...