Word: committeeroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week opened the great 1937 hunt for rich tax dodgers launched so suddenly by him and Franklin Roosevelt early this month (TIME, June 14). The hunt meet was not in the customary inquisition chamber, the Senate's barnlike caucus room, but in the House Ways & Means Committeeroom, which has much better acoustics, handsome indirect lighting, and comfortable chairs of green-blue leather. On the long bench were little placards identifying the committeemen for the audience. In the centre sat old Representative Bob Doughton of Laurel Springs, N. C., chairman of the joint committee, his bald dome almost...
...institute in Morristown, N. J. Most railroads, he conceded, had indeed been willing to let him and Rex travel together, but one had forced them both to ride in a baggage car. As he talked, Rex, with even more eloquence, was thumping his bushy tail on the green committeeroom carpet. Seeing Eye dogs, declared Rex's master, were taught always to be friendly with everyone, unless commanded otherwise. Amiably Rex rose, stalked up to R. V. Fletcher, stuck out his paw. Grinning, the railway counsel unbent and shook the paw. Unseeing Dr. Claus continued his plea. The 13-month...
...Thoughts, With such tall talk of such fat figures ringing in their ears, the Senate Finance Committeemen retired into their committeeroom with the House tax bill, started to remake it, supposedly in secret. Every few minutes, however, some loose-tongued Senator stuck out his head to whisper to the Press that another chunk had been taken out of the measure. First inheritance taxes went out bodily. Then a new schedule of estate taxes higher than those in force was ordered written. Next the stiff excess profits tax proposed by the House was pared down. Personal income tax exemptions were...
Senator Pat Harrison emerged from the committeeroom rubbing his hands. "We have simply turned the bill into a revenue measure," he announced. By that he meant that it was expected to raise $464,000,000 instead of the $275,000,000 expected from the House bill...
...Debt agreements are not treaties but revenue laws of the U. S., the President's most able advocates of postponed collections marched not to the Senate but to the Ways & Means Committee of the House to make their best pleas. First to enter the ornate marble committeeroom was Ogden Livingston Mills, Undersecretary of the Treasury on whom the President leaned heavily during those troublous June days before France was jockeyed into line for the Moratorium. He told plump, mild-eyed Democratic Chairman James Collier and his 24 committee colleagues that Congress would be "everlastingly disgraced" if it failed...