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...
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