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...presented to the public, some Congressmen warned that taxes heavy enough to cover the full cost of security would strangle the country's economy. Cried New York's Daniel Reed: "I think the President has gone hysterical." Some recalled the observation of North Carolina's Congressman "Muley" Doughton, when President Roosevelt in 1943 proposed a $10.5 billion increase in wartime taxes: "You can shear a sheep once a year; you can skin him only once...
...taxes, flat across-the-board profits levies. On the committee itself, New York's Republican Representative Daniel A. Reed tried to offer a plan to permit corporations to choose between a flat 55% corporate income tax or Snyder's 75% excess profits levy. But Chairman Robert Lee ("Muley") Doughton, 87-year-old North Carolina Democrat, refused to listen to any alternatives, insisted that Congress had given him a "mandate" to report out only an excess profits tax in time for the lame duck session...
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...