Word: muley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tied the knot with his own ham-sized hands was North Carolina's stubborn old Congressman Robert L. ("Muley") Doughton, chairman of the Ways & Means Committee. He and his committee stalwarts, their own bill repudiated, now refused to work out a compromise plan...
...week Congressmen pushed, shoved, pulled and prodded at Muley. Nine Republican committee members got up a round-robin petition to whip him into action. Seventy House Democrats goaded him with another petition...
Then House Republican Leader Joe Martin put the most painful burr of all under the harness. All Congressmen, including Muley Doughton, want to get away for a two-week Easter recess. Martin announced flatly that he would prevent the recess unless the House voted a pay-as-you-go compromise first. Old Muley Doughton grew red-faced and smoking hot, but he still balked...
...Washington last week Robert L. ("Muley") Doughton, chairman of the Ways & Means Committee, pulled his black slouch hat down over his gimlet eyes, picked up his grips in his ham-sized hands, and took train for his North Carolina tobacco-farming district...
Crotchety Robert L. ("Muley") Doughton, chairman of the prima donna-packed House Ways & Means Committee, felt the tax rub. His own soliloquy: "We are dealing with the most hateful, difficult problem that ever came along in the annals of mankind...