Word: demos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cord's hero was Joe McMillin's brother, Congressman Benton McMillin, a rock of old-line Democracy, a low-tariff man, an advocate of a high income tax law on those millionaires back East. In Bent's buggy at campaign time, young Hull absorbed demo cratic doctrine. It was Bent McMillin who later drafted the first U. S. income tax law, killed by the Supreme Court; and it was Cordell Hull, many years later, who drafted the income tax law (1913) that stands today...