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But Congress, still groaning from the $13,000,000,000 tax egg it laid a few weeks ago, is not anxious to start brooding on Social Security taxes. Last week President Roosevelt sent for hot-tempered old Robert Lee ("Muley") Doughton, mountaineer chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee. Still...
The President greeted him with the melting charm that only a Roosevelt can muster, touched his heart by inquiring about Mrs. Doughton's health, asked how the Doughton beef steers were getting on at Laurel Springs, N.C. Then he mentioned the Social Security message he was preparing for Congress...
"Greatly Surprised." Muley Doughton hit the ceiling. Red-faced and bitter, he called his committee together for a showdown. "This is a terrible hurt," said old Bob Doughton. "This is one of the hardest blows I have ever had." Then, his mountaineer anger getting the better of him, he told...
"I was very greatly surprised," wrote Mountaineer Doughton, "to receive your letter. . . . The matters discussed . . . have all received our most careful consideration. ... As to mandatory joint returns . . . our whole desire was to place the family upon an equitable basis . . . and remove the admitted evil of tax avoidance. . . ."
A rumpled, bulky, droop-mustached man stood beside the white dazzle of the Unknown Soldier's marble tomb in Arlington Cemetery. He too had been a soldier-Sergeant Alvin C. York, the Tennessee mountaineer who, 23 years ago, singlehanded, disabled a German machine-gun battery and with seven privates...