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...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...
...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...
Back to his office went Muley Doughton to answer the President's letter...