Word: muley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...desk was the tax bill, finally sweated out by Congressman Robert ("Muley") Doughton and his Ways & Means Committee (see p. 14). Defense was costing a lot of money, a lot of taxpayers were going to have to cough up for it. The bill would surely start a row on Capitol Hill...
...salutation was a mite too bland. The letter itself reminded North Carolina's hot-tempered, 77-year-old Representative Robert Lee ("Muley") Doughton, Chairman of the Ways & Means Committee, of a kick in the pants. For three months he had sweated over the biggest tax bill of all time, conferring with Treasury officials, arguing behind locked doors with fainthearted committeemen. For a week he had fought hard to get the bill through the House intact. Now, on the eve of passage, came the President's letter...
...Greatly Surprised." Muley Doughton hit the ceiling. Red-faced and bitter, he called his committee together for a showdown. "This is a terrible hurt," said old Bob Doughton. "This is one of the hardest blows I have ever had." Then, his mountaineer anger getting the better of him, he told the committee flatly that he didn't intend to stand...
...well-nigh universal." Recognizing this spirit, Chairman Robert L. Doughton's Ways & Means Committee proposed to give about 8,336,000 more U. S. citizens the opportunity of filing a Federal income tax return, to give some 2,000,000 of them an opportunity actually to pay. "Muley" Doughton & colleagues proposed to lower the minimum taxable income from $1,000 to $800, reducing the exemption for married citizens from $2,500 to $2.000. Effect of these and other changes in the Rearmament revenue measure which Chairman Doughton introduced last fortnight was to up its prospective annual yield...
Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau explained to Muley Doughton's committee why the new taxes are necessary. Even before the President upped his emergency Defense estimates by $1,000,000,000 plus (see p. 77), the expected deficit for fiscal 1941 stood at $3,703,000,000. This prospect in itself was nothing new. But, said Mr. Morgenthau, the U. S. Treasury as of last week could borrow only $1,973,000,000 more without cracking the $45,000,000,000 debt limit. In consequence the Secretary, Muley Doughton and Pat Harrison asked Congress to up the limit...