Word: doughton
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...serve until I am 100, and that ended that!" In London last week, after ten days in Paris as a NATO conference delegate, Senator Green, 89, became "he oldest man ever to serve in the Congress, surpassing the record of North Carolina's late Democratic Representative Robert ("Muley") Doughton, whose term ended in 1953 when Doughton was 89 years 56½ days. Then, thanking lots of walking and other exercise for his longevity, Eldest Statesman Green, a bachelor who drinks an occasional cocktail and smokes not even cornsilk, rushed to West Germany and a banquet honoring...
Died. Robert Lee ("Muley") Doughton, 90, longtime (1911-53) Democratic Congressman from North Carolina, chairman under Presidents Roosevelt and Truman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee; in Laurel Springs. N.C. A self-made rich man (livestock, banking), shrewd, backwoodsy "Farmer Bob" took over the tax-initiating Ways and Means Committee in 1933, and for two decades (except for the Republican controlled 80th Congress) bossed it through the vast revenue-raising needed for depression and war. Determinedly cracker-barrel (Taxation is a matter of "getting the most feathers with the least squawks from the goose"), Tax-Planner Doughton tried...
...once pulled out of a mine cave-in, half dead, with a physics book in his pocket. In 1910 Lewis was elected to Congress, identified himself as a left-wing Democrat. In 1935 he wrote the old-age pension law (although its sponsor, North Carolina's Representative Doughton, got the credit...
...Confederate officer, Doughton was raised in Alleghany County on the edge of the Appalachians. He first went to Congress in 1911 and has served continuously ever since, longer than anyone in the House except Illinois' Adolph Sabath, 85, who began in 1907. Doughton became chairman of the Ways & Means Committee in 1933, and except for the Republican years of 1947-48, has ruled it ever since. He loyally supported the pump-priming experiments of the New Deal, helped pioneer the nation's first social security law, and backed the first reciprocal trade agreements. His basic philosophy on taxes...
Last week, when Muley finished reading his retirement announcement for the television cameras, he turned to the technicians and asked: "Curtains?" Came the reply: "Yes, Mr. Chairman, that's all." Doughton nodded slightly, blinked, brought his hands slowly together like the final curtain of a long, long play, and repeated, half to himself: "Curtains...