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...public of admiring "every dab of paint that comes out of dressmaking Paris." He called critics "dolts, asses, dullards who rave about impressionism and realism without knowing what Prussian blue is." And dealers were plain "racketeers." Hassam was so single-mindedly American that Fellow Painter Frederic Remington dubbed him "Muley...
...women remains a question. She is a perfect size ten (5 ft. 4 in., 114 Ibs.), wears various shades of orange, yellow, coral and melon because Lyndon likes bright hues. When she appears in something more subdued, he is apt to growl, "Don't wear those old 'muley' colors...
...Normally it takes considerable seniority to win a place on the prestigious Ways and Means Committee. But Mills reached the goal in a mere four years. Speaker Sam Rayburn, impressed with Mills's brains and diligence, gave him a push. And the committee's chairman, North Carolina's Robert ("Muley") Doughton, author of the dictum that the objective of tax policy is to "get the most feathers with the fewest squawks from the goose," soon found studious Congressman Mills a valuable man to have around...
...serve until I am 100, and that ended that!" In London last week, after ten days in Paris as a NATO conference delegate, Senator Green, 89, became "he oldest man ever to serve in the Congress, surpassing the record of North Carolina's late Democratic Representative Robert ("Muley") Doughton, whose term ended in 1953 when Doughton was 89 years 56½ days. Then, thanking lots of walking and other exercise for his longevity, Eldest Statesman Green, a bachelor who drinks an occasional cocktail and smokes not even cornsilk, rushed to West Germany and a banquet honoring...
Died. Robert Lee ("Muley") Doughton, 90, longtime (1911-53) Democratic Congressman from North Carolina, chairman under Presidents Roosevelt and Truman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee; in Laurel Springs. N.C. A self-made rich man (livestock, banking), shrewd, backwoodsy "Farmer Bob" took over the tax-initiating Ways and Means Committee in 1933, and for two decades (except for the Republican controlled 80th Congress) bossed it through the vast revenue-raising needed for depression and war. Determinedly cracker-barrel (Taxation is a matter of "getting the most feathers with the least squawks from the goose"), Tax-Planner Doughton tried...