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Texas congressman took up veteran’s cause
On June 16, 1932, the U.S. House of Representatives echoed a Texas member’s call for cash compensation for veterans of the First World War, but a bloody disappointment was in store for the “bonus army” that had invaded Washington.
As a freshman congressman from northeast Texas, Wright Patman introduced a bill in May 1929 mandating the immediate payment of the so-called “adjusted service compensation” for the two million doughboys that fought in France. Why should the...