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...foremost U. S. political orator of the age down to Chapel Hill to address his group, which prides itself on paying no honorariums and on cross-questioning its speakers when they are through. His college president, Dr. Frank Porter Graham, Senators Josiah Bailey and Bob Reynolds, Representative Bob Doughton and officials of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. at Winston-Salem (where Voit Gilmore lives) all helped him. In October he drove up to Washington, following a barrage of telegrams and letters, and made life miserable for White House Secretary Marvin Mclntyre until three weeks later, having industriously backed...
...Chairman Doughton of the Ways & Means committee, was safely returned and for three New Dealers lost, two inveterate anti-New Dealers were defeated. But Republicans on this 25-man committee will increase from seven to probably ten. Only three of the 15 Democrats will have to stand against the Administration to make coalition rule possible on, for example, the next Tax Bill...
WASHINGTON--Administration, leaders tonight gave the "quick action" signal to a program to amend and liberalize the Social Security Act early in the forthcoming session of Congress to combat the rapid growth of more sweeping old-age pension schemes. Chairman Robert Doughton of the House Ways and Means Committee, said his group will begin a thorough study of "liberalization" proposals as soon as Congress convenes and that such legislation would take precedence over the administration's tax program...
Should some Capitol cataclysm remove 14 such potent House committee chairmen as Ways & Means' Bob Doughton of North Carolina, Judiciary's Hatton Sumners of Texas, as many junior Congressmen would be upped by seniority. Southern leadership would be decimated, and the way of future measures like the recently enacted Wages-&-Hours Bill (see p. 9) would be greatly eased. Lacking the necessary cosmic powers, C. I. O. politicos last week proposed to accomplish the foregoing and more by an Act of Labor...
Massachusetts' Joseph W. Martin Jr., who is on G. O. P. books to succeed retiring Minority Leader Bertrand Snell; Alabama's Henry B. Steagall (who, like Chairman Doughton, has already been renominated in his Democratic district); Texas' Martin Dies, Joseph J. Mansfield, Fritz Lanham; Maine's Ralph O. Brewster; Massachusetts' Allen T. Treadway; Michigan's Clare E. Hoffman. House As of course included such stalwart laborites as-Texas' Maverick, California's Voorhis, Wisconsin's Boileau, Illinois' Kent Keller, Iowa's and Harry Hopkins' Otha Wearin, who was recently...