Word: muley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...give short shrift to an Administration bill calling for 1) a flat $40 across-the-board cut in income taxes, and 2) a revenue-balancing reinstatement of the wartime tax on excess corporate profits. Even among Democrats, the Administration bill found few enthusiasts. North Carolina's tough old "Muley" Doughton, ranking Democrat on the Knutson committee, refused to introduce it. To get this futile chore done, the White House had to go all the way down to the committee's No. 3 Democrat, John Dingell of Michigan...
Democratic Congressman Robert ("Muley") Doughton, who surrenders the chairmanship which Knutson assumes, drily observed: "The Republicans have promised more than they ever can accomplish. And now that they have the opportunity we will see just how they...
These were key spots. The Republicans who would move into them were perhaps no better and no worse than such present Democratic committee chairman as Andy May, Sol Bloom, Muley Doughton, et al. Committee chairmen all get there the same way-by seniority, which brings experience* but not necessarily ability...
...surprise appointment of Webb caused Washington to look with respect to a surprising coincidence of Tarheels in important U.S. fiscal positions. North Carolina's 82-year-old Robert L. ("Muley") Doughton is chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee, where all revenue-raising legislation gets its start. North Carolina's Gardner watches over Treasury collections of all U.S. taxes. The expenditures of Government departments are audited by the Comptroller General of the U.S., North Carolina's Lindsay C. Warren...
...mostly his week was spent in listen ing to the endless stream of White House visitors. They were of all stripes and beliefs, and they came on all sorts of missions: North Carolina's Representative "Muley" Doughton (taxes); FEA's Leo Crowley (Lend-Lease); Bob Hannegan (patronage); Washington's ex-Senator Lewis Schwellenbach, now a federal judge (job); Wisconsin's Bob La Follette (social call...