Word: muley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week no Democrat, high or low, New or Old Deal, cared to take his political life in his hands, suggest brutal tax increases. The shadow of 1940 lay heavy on the grey Capitol, the gleaming White House. Ancient, ham-handed "Old Muley" Bob Doughton of North Carolina, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, celebrated his 76th birthday, optimistically remarked that the war boom in business might obviate the need of new taxes...
...whimsy. Heroine is the kind of a girl things happen to, a wisecracking blurter who has an abortive affair with a Philadelphia socialite. At once too sophisticated and too crude, too literary and too "natural," her confessions are a departure from the old Morley Mellowness into a sort of Muley Naturalism...
...convert to Economy, managed to persuade the Senate, which was supposed to be paring down the $83,000,000 Second Deficiency Bill, to authorize and make the initial appropriation for a new $112,000,000 TVA dam near Gilbertsville, Ky. -just across the line from Tennessee. Chairman Robert L. ("Muley"; Doughton of the House Ways & Means Committee, who because a new tax bill would bear his name has been one of the hottest champions of Economy, grew livid last week when he learned that the House Appropriations Committee had halved a $5,000,000 Interior Department item for further work...