Word: muley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with embarrassing questions, cut off his flanks with counterproposals. But this time General Morgenthau had not given Congress time to mobilize. Treasury and Congressional experts had worked out the campaign together. Mr. Morgenthau had smoothed the way for his Blitzkrieg by luncheons with big, ham-handed Chairman Robert L. ("Muley") Doughton of the House Ways & Means committee (which starts the tax bill rolling) and urbane Chairman Walter F. George of the Senate Finance Committee. With their help, Strategist Morgenthau thought that he could make...
Said bent, big-boned "Old Muley" Doughton: "We face the job of performing a delicate major operation, and when a doctor has to do that, he studies his patient. He doesn't rush in and operate without extreme care, or he will lose the patient...
...homey, handsome dining room at the Treasury Department, with a cheery fire on the hearth, hospitable Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. entertained guests at lunch: grey-haired Senator Walter F. George of Georgia, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and big, bald Representative Robert L. ("Muley") Doughton of North Carolina, chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee. They were talking taxes...
...Congress, still groaning from the $13,000,000,000 tax egg it laid a few weeks ago, is not anxious to start brooding on Social Security taxes. Last week President Roosevelt sent for hot-tempered old Robert Lee ("Muley") Doughton, mountaineer chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee. Still smarting from the slap in the face that Franklin Roosevelt gave him over the tax bill (TIME, Aug. 11), Muley Doughton jammed his battered black planter's hat down on his bald dome, stumped around to the White House...
Back to his office went Muley Doughton to answer the President's letter...