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Pushing back his spectacles in amazement, old Chairman Doughton asked: "Would you have the same rate on bread and wheat as cigarets and whiskey?" Mr. Cromwell: "Yes, sir." Thoroughly nettled, long-faced Congressman Fred Vinson quickly calculated that on the base suggested by Mr. Cromwell the sales tax would have to be 18%. This, Mr. Cromwell admitted, was "a little high." Thus, last week, like scores of other U. S. citizens, Husband Cromwell exercised his right to be heard on a new tax bill in the making...
...Johnson on "Wages & Hours Legislation;" Colgate University's President George Barton Cutten on "Hiatus in Social Re-sponsibility;" M. I. T.'s President Karl Taylor Compton and Caltec's Robert Andrews Millikan on Science & Industry. For national and international information the manufacturers will look to Chairman Doughton of the House Ways & Means Committee and Sir Wilmott Lewis, suave, ironical Washington correspondent for the London Times...
...income by itself." First proposal would mean that 93% of U. S. corporations would be affected by corporate gains modifications. Second would affect large and small business alike. Third would principally benefit large individual incomes. Representative Vinson, seconded by the Ways & Means Committee's Chairman Robert Lee Doughton made it clear that tax legislation would not be ready for action in the special session. Said Chair-man Doughton: "I think it would take just as long to get a part of the program through as to do all of it. I don't object to consideration...
...speech two days later (see p. 16), also popped into the Executive wing, as did Daniel Roper, Acting Budget Director Daniel Bell, Edward F. McGrady- who resigned as Assistant Secretary of Labor in September to become RCA's director of labor relations-and Chairman Robert L. Doughton of the House Ways and Means Committee...
...proceedings did not fail to recognize the formal purpose of the investigation: to find means of plugging holes in the income tax law, not just to ferret out individual tax dodgers. Chairman Doughton read a short statement saying that none but "those who used flagrant means of tax avoidance'' need be uneasy about the coming inquisition. Secretary Morgenthau in a monotone told the committee that nowadays there are 45,000 tax lawyers and accountants, specialists in saving their clients taxes, that often it is difficult to tell the difference "between tax avoidance which is proper and tax-evasion...