Word: muley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With committee tempers frayed, bluff Chairman Robert L. ("Muley") Doughton resorted to an old Washington device: he appointed a subcommittee to draft a compromise. What worried Muley Doughton most, however, was that U.S. citizens, looking toward pay-as-you-go as a sensible improvement in taxation methods, were not filing their 1943 returns with anything like the alacrity they showed last year. He warned taxpayers that the March 15 installment would be due this year, as in all previous years. Best estimate was that not until after the June 15 payment would tax collections be put on a current-income...
Vito Vetoed. The House, at last, got all its committee assignments straightened out, but not without some hurt feelings and one bitter scrap. All hell broke loose when North Carolina's conservative Robert ("Muley") Doughton submitted the name of New York's tough, pinko Vito Marcantonio as a member of the potent Judiciary Committee. Marcantonio, the only American Laborite in the House, had fought defense measures before the Nazi attack on Russia in 1941; afterwards he had screamed for an A.E.F. He had infuriated Southerners by plugging for bills against poll taxes and lynching. Croaked wrathful Judiciary Committee...
Taxes. Well aware that they must pass the biggest tax bill in U.S. history, Congressmen pored over plans and statistics. Mused "Muley" Doughton: Congressmen were doing nothing else but answering letters on the Ruml pay-as-you-go plan. Said Massachusetts' Allen Towner Treadway: "Pay-as-you-go collection of income taxes is absolutely imperative...
...Morgenthau had seldom paid much attention to rustic, rawboned "Muley" Doughton, except to be annoyed at his dirt farmer's conservatism. Nor had Mr. Morgenthau, full of the righteousness of his own tax schemes, ever regarded Mr. Doughton's committee as particularly qualified for its job of originating the nation's tax laws. But now Mr. Morgenthau, whose influence on Capitol Hill had dropped below zero, was paying his belated respects...
...hours after his guest had departed, old Muley Doughton magnanimously held his tongue. Then, unable to restrain himself any longer, he had his office issue a communique whose note of triumph was the louder for being restrained: "Mr. Morgenthau said that . . . he was anxious to cooperate with . . . Congress in the most helpful way possible in working out a satisfactory tax program. Secretary Morgenthau made it plain . . . that he was most anxious to continue to work in harmony with the committee in whatever manner it was deemed would produce the best results...