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Almost before the Secretary had finished reading his prepared statement, the U.S. Treasury's design for extracting another $10,500,000,000.00 from the U.S. pocketbook was mackerel-dead. Cried Democrat Robert L. ("OF Muley") Doughton, head of the Ways & Means Committee: "Utterly indefensible." Cried Republican Harold Knutson: "How much of it is for revenue and how much is for politics...
...lines, Old Grand Party Unity opposing and the administration supporting. Although there are varying degrees of opposition within the Republican ranks, statements of prominent leaders give grounds for the fear that the issue is being fought in terms of party aggrandizement rather than of national welfare. Minnesotan Floor Leader Knutson characterizes the trade pacts as "a succession of dismal failures." Going off on a different tack, he implies that the fundamental question is one involving the power ratio of Congress in relation to foreign policy. Vestiges of isolationist complacency are refurbished by H. Fish's statement that "the reciprocal trade...
Republican committee members, who meanwhile had scaled down their demands for full 1942 tax forgiveness to 75%, marked time until the bill comes to a vote on the House floor next week. Minnesota's balding Harold Knutson still held out for something closer to the Ruml plan; he hoped for many a Congressman's conversion while home for the Easter recess. Dopesters agreed that the House would finally pass some kind of tax bill, to throw it, as usual, in the Senate's lap for rewriting...
...Republican Congressman Harold Knutson of Minnesota, who in 1935 backed Ham Fish for President ("I know of no other . . . better"), once said: "Hitler is displaying a forbearance that might well be emulated by statesmen of other nations...
Representative Harold Knutson, in his column in the Brainerd (Minnesota) "Dispatch," discussed last week the Dies Committee's accusations against the Union for Democratic Action. Knutson cited a great many facts about U. D. A. leaders which in his opinion prove it is an alien group. His comment on Dr. James Loeb, executive secretary of the Union, was that Locb formerly taught Romance languages. --From the Nation, July...