Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...individuals is higher than the 14%-65% that the Kennedy Administration had originally asked for. But Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon appeared before Ways and Means early last week, approved of the committee change. The smaller reductions, Dillon felt, were necessary because the committee, under the chairmanship of Arkansas Democrat Wilbur Mills, had already dumped many other Administration proposals aimed at increasing tax revenues...
...Ways and Means Committee vote was a vital first step toward passage of a tax bill. But several steps remain-and the bill could stumble on any one of them. Even with House passage, it must go through the Senate Finance Committee, headed by Virginia Democrat Harry Byrd, who opposes a tax cut unless it is accompanied by deep cuts in spending. Byrd has not yet even started to hold committee hearings-and he is in no rush to begin...
...remain a power in California politics for some time. The Kennedy Administration loves him; it gives him the major share of credit for carrying Los Angeles County for Jack Kennedy in 1960. Last week White House spokesmen made it clear that Unruh is still the Administration's favorite Democrat in the nation's most populous state. As for Big Daddy himself, he could only mourn: "Sometimes I think the only thing I could do to stay out of controversy would be to cut my throat. But then they'd blame me for bloodying up the speaker...
...Democrat Boyd, who joined the board under Eisenhower and was named chairman by Kennedy, privately concedes that the board is slow and unwieldy. The board regularly divides between its two Republicans and two Democrats, with Boyd the decisive vote. By siding with the Republican members to cut back Northeast, Boyd faced the economic reality that Northeast should never have been given the Florida route extension in the first place...
...share in management decisions, took over the textile operation when his father retired in 1954. Since then he has shocked almost everybody. After winning a seat on the' city council, he pushed tax reform, tried to have Milan's trolley fares doubled to cover deficits. A Christian Democrat who says, "I am a leftist because I am modern," he spurred Milan's own apertura a sinistra by persuading the party to form a coalition with the socialists...