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Reported last week by Chairman Bob Doughton's House Ways & Means Committee were Administration amendments to the Social Security Act. Their prime object was to scuttle the illusory "full reserve" ($47,000.000,000 by 1980) planned for Social Security insurance for the aged, try for a collect-as-you-pay system by upping immediate Federal contributions, reducing intake from payroll taxes. Recommended changes...
Early one morning last week Franklin Roosevelt called to him Secretary Morgenthau, as well as Chairman Doughton and Representative Jere Cooper of the House Ways & Means committee, and in their presence he strangled his only 1939 rabbit. He told them that the Hanes plan must not be given to Congress as an Administration plan - he wanted Congress merely to extend present corporate taxes which expire December 31, and excise taxes which expire June...
Conferee Harrison informed Franklin Roosevelt that: 1) he was going to get a tax bill whether he liked it or no, and 2) it would enact most of John Hanes's plan. Messrs. Hanes and Morgenthau were discreetly reticent. Loyal Representative Bob Doughton squirmed so much that Pat Harrison told him not to worry, the Senate would write the bill. Franklin Roosevelt reddened, let Pat Harrison leave unrebuked, uncontradicted...
Early one morning last week Franklin Roosevelt called to him Secretary Morgenthau, as well as Chairman Doughton and Representative Jere Cooper of the House Ways & Means committee, and in their presence he strangled his only 1939 rabbit. He told them that the Hanes plan must not be given to Congress as an Administration plan-he wanted Congress merely to extend present corporate taxes which expire December 31, and excise taxes which expire June...
...honest showdown, not only Vice President Garner and influential Senators like South Carolina's Byrnes would be found at Pat Harrison's side, but perhaps even loyal Chairman Bob Doughton of the House Ways & Means Committee. At week's end Bob Doughton joined Pat Harrison in a joint letter to Mr. Morgenthau which could be construed either as a goodwill gesture or as another, specific challenge. In tones of warmest welcome they invited the Secretary of the Treasury to make good, after reviewing the income tax returns that will come in March 15, on his promise...