Word: knutson
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Minnesota's kewpie-shaped Harold Knutson, 63, one of the most incorrigible rumormongers in Congress, was at it again last week...
...Knutson told his colleagues about "the rumor that Fala, that little Scotty dog, had been inadvertently left behind at the Aleutians on the [President's] return trip, and that they did not discover the absence of the little doggie until the party reached Seattle, and that it is rumored a destroyer was sent a thousand miles to fetch...
...Knutson: "Mr. Speaker, knowing the President's affinity for dogs, it was only natural that I should believe that there was some foundation to the story. . . . You know, it is not so very long ago that a certain very high-placed American woman made a trip to Australia in a bomber that it is reported had been remodeled so as to permit the installation of a shower bath...
...drop. Contemplating this, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Walter F.George predicted that the new tax, which Congress had hoped would bring in $90,000,000, will actually bring in less than the old 5% tax. He advocated that the tax be reduced to 15 or 20%. Minnesota's Harold Knutson had already tossed in the House hopper a resolution to lower...
Horror. Politicians were horrified. President Roosevelt smilingly told the press he wished he had that much nerve. Minnesota's Harold Knutson, Republican member of the influential House Ways & Means Committee, said: "Congress rejected the President's tax program because it would have wiped out the middle class and jeopardized the solvency of all business, yet Mr. Willkie would raise double the amount...