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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...
...give short shrift to an Administration bill calling for 1) a flat $40 across-the-board cut in income taxes, and 2) a revenue-balancing reinstatement of the wartime tax on excess corporate profits. Even among Democrats, the Administration bill found few enthusiasts. North Carolina's tough old "Muley" Doughton, ranking Democrat on the Knutson committee, refused to introduce it. To get this futile chore done, the White House had to go all the way down to the committee's No. 3 Democrat, John Dingell of Michigan...
...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...
Democratic Congressman Robert ("Muley") Doughton, who surrenders the chairmanship which Knutson assumes, drily observed: "The Republicans have promised more than they ever can accomplish. And now that they have the opportunity we will see just how they...
These were key spots. The Republicans who would move into them were perhaps no better and no worse than such present Democratic committee chairman as Andy May, Sol Bloom, Muley Doughton, et al. Committee chairmen all get there the same way-by seniority, which brings experience* but not necessarily ability...