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Last week no Democrat, high or low, New or Old Deal, cared to take his political life in his hands, suggest brutal tax increases. The shadow of 1940 lay heavy on the grey Capitol, the gleaming White House. Ancient, ham-handed "Old Muley" Bob Doughton of North Carolina, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, celebrated his 76th birthday, optimistically remarked that the war boom in business might obviate the need of new taxes...
...Memphis-only to keep his machine in power, since he is to reign for five minutes Jan. 1 before resigning in favor of the vice mayor, who would in turn surrender the job to a Crump henchman. But everybody knew that the Big Wind had blown over California, where Ham & Eggs was defeated...
...national figure to emerge from the California election was Columnist Westbrook Pegler. Fortnight ago the ex-sports writer landed in Los Angeles and began sending out appalled columns: "This community lives under ether and utters weird cries in its waking dreams." Westbrook Pegler was alarmed, not because a proposed Ham & Eggs amendment to the State Constitution promised $30 every Thursday to retired citizens over 50 years of age, not because it would have compelled the Governor to name a leader of Ham & Eggs to administer the act, not because it would set up a State bank system with power...
...Ham Daughaday, Sam Binnian, and George Dreher starred for the visitors...
...Puritans won their game on a blocked punt, the fourth time that they have gained victory this way. Joe Peden broke through the Deacon line in the third quarter to knock down a punt and Ham Daughaday proceeded to fall on the ball on the eight-yard line. From there George Dreher carried it over...