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...subject or not knowing it. I've sought to know my subject." Last week Wilbur Mills, 48, stepped into the powerful job of chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, which shapes the nation's tax legislation. The move, prompted by the death of Tennessee Democrat Jere Cooper (see MILESTONES), followed normal seniority rules, but still it was a reward that no colleague could deny Wilbur Mills. In 19 years as a Congressman, Lawyer Mills thoroughly studied his economics, got a reputation as a spokesman for low-income groups and small business, yet is a model...
...Other Side. The measure of the Southern press was taken last week by Jere Moore, editor of Georgia's Milledgeville weekly Union Recorder, who once routed the Ku Klux Klan in a local battle. Said Moore: "The newspapers of the South have failed to take the leadership demanded of them in this issue. They have been weak-kneed when they should have been strong. We have not tackled the issue...
...cartographers, Vince Puglisi and Jere Donovan, helping him in our map room, but his own work in and on TIME (cover map of liberated Paris, Sept. 4, 1944, and the map of Jerusalem cover, Aug. 26, 1946) has been so prolific in the past 18 years that some readers can't believe it was done by one man - or even one generation. One reader wrote Chapin: "I've enjoyed the maps that you and your father have done for TIME...
Voting against the protectionists this time was none other than Arch-Protectionist Dan Reed, who had explained earlier: "Last year, when I had a desperate fight on tax revision and other legislation, the distinguished gentleman from Tennessee [Jere Cooper] was in the minority. I asked him to cooperate with me for a tight rule to get the legislation through. He did it. I told him I would-" Reed came to the hated word, then plunged ahead, "-reciprocate." Reed kept his promise, even though it cost him dearly. His was the deciding vote...
...Ross Bass lashed the Republicans for not supporting the bill. As he spoke, Democratic Representative James C. Davis (who has a textile mill in his Stone Mountain, Ga. district) was conferring with Dan Reed about beating it, while Republican Joe Martin had crossed the aisle to consult with Democrat Jere Cooper...