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...committeemen reeled for an hour under the impact of Paul's 33-page document, then recovered to deliver body blows of their own. Harry Byrd called the proposal the "most complicated and unworkable plan" the Treasury had submitted in nine years: "It would compel taxpayers to pay more taxes than they have income." Bob La Follette termed its provisions "heresy" and "a hell of a note." To Joe Guffey the scheme was stillborn. It "staggered" Colorado Ed Johnson's imagination. Puddler Jim Davis threw up his hands: "It is too complicated for an ordinary man like...
...supply bill last week, economy-minded committeemen slashed $75,818,000 which would have kept CCC going another year. For good measure they gouged some $100,000,000 out of an appropriation for the National Youth Administration, left NYA only some $50,000,000 to carry on its defense-worker training. NYA is somebody else's pet: Mrs. Roosevelt...
...Senate Appropriations Committee got down to really important business. Committeemen tacked $196,800 to the $27,463,866 1943 legislative appropriation bill. The purpose: to provide each Senator with an additional clerk. Senators, burdened with responsibilities, complained that their present clerical staffs were not adequate to handle all the mail pouring in on them. Most of the letters: red-hot criticisms of Congress...
...committeemen are: Thomas J. Ashton, of New York and Matthews; Edward Bodman, of Long Island and Thayer; Hugh Calkins, of Newton and Thayer; Jerry L. Gottschal, of Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin and Weld; Kenneth Fremont-Smith, of Cambridge and Matthews; James E. McNutty, of Oak Park, Illinois and Thayer; David B. Moseley, of Buffalo and Wigglesworth; Donald I. Perry, of Apley; Stanley Rich, of New York and Stoughton; Joseph H. Sharlitt, of Cleveland and Hollis; Dean Hennessy, of Chicago and Matthews; William Wolf, of Dorchester; Andrew J. Wright, of Columbus, Ohio, and Holworthy...
With relief the committee then turned from these disagreeable reminders to listen to the voice of experience, that of Elder Statesman Bernard Mannes Baruch, World War I defense tsar. Baruch's testimony had been advertised as a thwacking assault on the bill. Several committeemen hoped this would include a few attacks on Henderson. But tall, silver-haired Bernard Baruch had nothing to say against Henderson; he paid him tribute, called him "Brother...