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...fact that Harry Truman was putting it before a Democratic Congress which might very well give him a number of the things for which he asked. House Speaker Sam Rayburn last week asserted confidently that Congress would receive the program with "considerable favor." Democratic Congressman Robert ("Muley") Doughton, chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee, was not so sure about one point. Said he: "The country will not look very favorably on increased taxes until the people are convinced that we are not wasting money...
Ranting & Liberal. The powerful Rules Committee, will fall to Illinois' 82-year-old Adolph J. Sabath, the Ways & Means Committee to North Carolina's Robert L. ("Muley") Doughton, who last week celebrated his 85th birthday. In the place of New Jersey's Fred Hartley as chairman of the Labor Committee will be Michigan's liberal John Lesinski. Chairmanship of the Un-American Activities Committee will return to Georgia's John S. Wood, who, following past form, will probably let Mississippi's ranting John Rankin run the show...
...short shrift to an Administration bill calling for 1) a flat $40 across-the-board cut in income taxes, and 2) a revenue-balancing reinstatement of the wartime tax on excess corporate profits. Even among Democrats, the Administration bill found few enthusiasts. North Carolina's tough old "Muley" Doughton, ranking Democrat on the Knutson committee, refused to introduce it. To get this futile chore done, the White House had to go all the way down to the committee's No. 3 Democrat, John Dingell of Michigan...
...were quick to realize that John Snyder was broadening a hint already made by the President: the Knutson bill, as it stood, would be vetoed. Good & scared, they began to talk of bringing the tax slash down to around $4 billion. At week's end, tax-wise Muley Doughton conceded that such a modification might well pick up enough Democratic votes to override a veto...
Those who received scholarships are: Theodore P. Allegretti '47, John C. Babcock '47, Joseph S. Berliner '48, Paul E. Des Marais '49, Morgan J. Doughton '47, Walter S. Frank '49, John L. Hawk '49, Frederick W. Kinsman '49, William G. Lawrence '50, Mark W. Leiserson '48, Bernard Loitman '40, Donald P. MacDonald '50, William W. Mee '47, James M. Menger, Jr. '48, Vincent P. Moravec '40, William F. O'Connor '49, Berol L. Robinson '48, Abe Schestopol '49, and John M. Teem...