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Shrewd, New Deal-hating Howard W. Smith, Virginia Democrat, author of a dozen anti-labor bills, warned: "This inflation threat is so dangerous, so imminent that I do not think we should burn this bridge down because we are mad at somebody." Representative Wright Patman of Texas counseled: "Remember that in Russia milk costs $7 a half pint, butter $70 a pound, a suit of clothes $450." The House, heedless, swept on. After months of inaction the members wanted to seize this first clear chance to smash at the Administration. Anti-Administration Democrats and Republicans alike joined...
Many a visitor to the Army at home and abroad has gone away with the impression that half the U.S.'s soldiers are from Texas. Getting down to figures last fortnight, Texas' Representative Wright Patman proved that while that was not true, Texas did have a higher percentage of volunteers than any other state...
From Texas' population of 6,414,824, the Army has enlisted 53,015. Its percentage: .826. Patman's list, furnished by the War Department, ranked the other state percentages thus...
...York University, pointed out that if and when the banking system holds $100 billions of Government debt (June 30 they held $33 billions), it will be receiving roughly $2 billions in interest each year. Such a situation would be made to order for soft-money advocates like Representative Wright Patman, who could make the plea: "Why pay this subsidy? Why not print greenbacks?" With that warning at their backs, it was certain that Mr. Morgenthau's underwriters would work hard...
Since Wright Patman began his anti-chain-store crusade in 1935, the stores have read little good news. But last week Utah gave them some. The citizens rared up and threw an anti-chain tax for a loss. By Utah's constitution, a petition of 10% of the voters can set aside any law, make it subject to a Statewide referendum. To force suspension of their new chain-store tax, Utah voters used this right for the first time...