Word: muley
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Married. Sidi Muley Hassan ben el Mehedi, 42, Caliph of Spanish Morocco; and Princess Lal-La Fatima Zohora Bent Muley, 22, British-educated, tradition-flouting (she never covers her face, Moorish fashion) daughter of the late Sultan of Morocco; each for the first time (his concubines do not count); in a three-week-long, $600,000 ceremony financed by the Spanish government (Franco gave the newlyweds a $200,000 home); in Tetuan, Spanish Morocco...
...President said that he still wanted a $4 billion tax increase. Next day, the House Ways and Means Committee, which originates all tax bills, promptly put the measure on ice. North Carolina's conservative, old (85) Robert L. ("Muley") Doughton, the committee chairman, wanted to wait & see if a slump really was developing...
...time was the fact that Harry Truman was putting it before a Democratic Congress which might very well give him a number of the things for which he asked. House Speaker Sam Rayburn last week asserted confidently that Congress would receive the program with "considerable favor." Democratic Congressman Robert ("Muley") Doughton, chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee, was not so sure about one point. Said he: "The country will not look very favorably on increased taxes until the people are convinced that we are not wasting money...
Ranting & Liberal. The powerful Rules Committee, will fall to Illinois' 82-year-old Adolph J. Sabath, the Ways & Means Committee to North Carolina's Robert L. ("Muley") Doughton, who last week celebrated his 85th birthday. In the place of New Jersey's Fred Hartley as chairman of the Labor Committee will be Michigan's liberal John Lesinski. Chairmanship of the Un-American Activities Committee will return to Georgia's John S. Wood, who, following past form, will probably let Mississippi's ranting John Rankin run the show...
...Republicans were quick to realize that John Snyder was broadening a hint already made by the President: the Knutson bill, as it stood, would be vetoed. Good & scared, they began to talk of bringing the tax slash down to around $4 billion. At week's end, tax-wise Muley Doughton conceded that such a modification might well pick up enough Democratic votes to override a veto...