Word: argumentsâ
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...floor battle for him and his tax plans. But Congressman Mills, for all his knowledge and dexterity with figures, had a manner that got him into ill favor with his colleagues, antagonized those with whom he had to work. He treated them with intellectual and social contempt, scorned their arguments??? a legislative snob. Though his good friend Speaker Longworth declared he had "the best knowledge of national taxation of anyone in either house of Congress" his superciliousness in using that knowledge made him many a good enemy...
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