Word: doughton
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Vito Vetoed. The House, at last, got all its committee assignments straightened out, but not without some hurt feelings and one bitter scrap. All hell broke loose when North Carolina's conservative Robert ("Muley") Doughton submitted the name of New York's tough, pinko Vito Marcantonio as a member of the potent Judiciary Committee. Marcantonio, the only American Laborite in the House, had fought defense measures before the Nazi attack on Russia in 1941; afterwards he had screamed for an A.E.F. He had infuriated Southerners by plugging for bills against poll taxes and lynching. Croaked wrathful Judiciary Committee...
...plan were introduced in Congress, without waiting for a nod from Morgenthau. There were reports that Economic Czar James F. Byrnes would become Administration tax spokesman. Urbane Senator Walter F. George, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, had his own ideas about 1943 taxes. So did stubborn Robert L. Doughton, chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee...
...Morgenthau planned to remain Treasury Secretary in anything but name, he would have to cope quickly with his burdens of figures and men. Else his tax program would be written by Senator George, Congressman Doughton, Beardsley Ruml and perhaps Jimmy Byrnes-and Henry Morgenthau would become taxation's forgotten...
...Morgenthau had seldom paid much attention to rustic, rawboned "Muley" Doughton, except to be annoyed at his dirt farmer's conservatism. Nor had Mr. Morgenthau, full of the righteousness of his own tax schemes, ever regarded Mr. Doughton's committee as particularly qualified for its job of originating the nation's tax laws. But now Mr. Morgenthau, whose influence on Capitol Hill had dropped below zero, was paying his belated respects...
...hours after his guest had departed, old Muley Doughton magnanimously held his tongue. Then, unable to restrain himself any longer, he had his office issue a communique whose note of triumph was the louder for being restrained: "Mr. Morgenthau said that . . . he was anxious to cooperate with . . . Congress in the most helpful way possible in working out a satisfactory tax program. Secretary Morgenthau made it plain . . . that he was most anxious to continue to work in harmony with the committee in whatever manner it was deemed would produce the best results...