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![Patton Explains [...] Rep. Nat Patton (D. of Tex) has an idea he desires to impart to Rep. John J. O'Connor, chairman of the House Lobby hearing at its Thursday session. Patton has been mildly "on the spot" at the hearings since testimony inferred that he had received something more or vastly different from cigars from a Utility lobbiest prior to the first "Death Sentence" holding company vote in the house, 8/1/35](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MzUvMDEvMDEvcGF0dG9uLWV4cGxhaW5zLXJlcC1uYXQtcGF0dG9uLWQtb2YtdGV4LWhhcy1hbi1pZGVhLWhlLWRlc2lyZXMtdG8taW1wYXJ0LXRvLTY0MC5qcGc%3D/40/31/webp "Patton Explains [...] Rep. Nat Patton (D. of Tex) has an idea he desires to impart to Rep. John J. O'Connor, chairman of the House Lobby hearing at its Thursday session. Patton has been mildly \"on the spot\" at the hearings since testimony inferred that he had received something more or vastly different from cigars from a Utility lobbiest prior to the first \"Death Sentence\" holding company vote in the house, 8/1/35")
![Gentlemen, I am shagrined [...] so hinted Rep. Nat Patton (D. of Tex) when it was inferred by testimony of Eugene Sellers, NRA employee, that the box of cigars he received some time ago from utilities Chief John Carpenter was "not a box of cigars" and was a "pastebord box instead of a wooden one." Rep. Patton is seen here displaying the package he claims to have recieved, before the Senate Lobby hearing Friday, 7/26/35](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MzUvMDEvMDEvZ2VudGxlbWVuLWktYW0tc2hhZ3JpbmVkLXNvLWhpbnRlZC1yZXAtbmF0LXBhdHRvbi1kLW9mLXRleC13aGVuLWl0LXdhcy1pbmZlcnJlZC02NDAuanBn/40/51/webp "Gentlemen, I am shagrined [...] so hinted Rep. Nat Patton (D. of Tex) when it was inferred by testimony of Eugene Sellers, NRA employee, that the box of cigars he received some time ago from utilities Chief John Carpenter was \"not a box of cigars\" and was a \"pastebord box instead of a wooden one.\" Rep. Patton is seen here displaying the package he claims to have recieved, before the Senate Lobby hearing Friday, 7/26/35")
Wash. D.C. Principals. Rep. Martin Dies (D. of N.Y.) front, who was the principle cross-questioner at the House lobby inquiry Friday. Rep. Nat Patton (D. of Texas) who is a principle involved in the hearing, as to whether or not he received "cigars" in a cigar box from a Utility Lobbyist (in rear) and Bonnie Patton, his loyal daughter who testified for her father Friday, photoed at the hearing. 7/2/35
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A group of people sitting around a table.
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Date
01/01/1935
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Harris & Ewing, photographer
Location
Washington, District of Columbia, United States, 38.90719, -77.03687
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Library of Congress
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