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...surprise appointment of Webb caused Washington to look with respect to a surprising coincidence of Tarheels in important U.S. fiscal positions. North Carolina's 82-year-old Robert L. ("Muley") Doughton is chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee, where all revenue-raising legislation gets its start. North Carolina's Gardner watches over Treasury collections of all U.S. taxes. The expenditures of Government departments are audited by the Comptroller General of the U.S., North Carolina's Lindsay C. Warren...
...mostly his week was spent in listen ing to the endless stream of White House visitors. They were of all stripes and beliefs, and they came on all sorts of missions: North Carolina's Representative "Muley" Doughton (taxes); FEA's Leo Crowley (Lend-Lease); Bob Hannegan (patronage); Washington's ex-Senator Lewis Schwellenbach, now a federal judge (job); Wisconsin's Bob La Follette (social call...
...armies moved to the House, where the first obstacle was stubborn old "Muley" Doughton of North Carolina, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. Aware of the explosive political possibilities, Muley Doughton was combing the books for every variety of delaying action...
...dairy cows grazing in our orchard and the peasants come right out in their wooden shoes and milk them, and Mom, one of the cows made fertilizer right where I put down my blankets. Golly, Mom, it sure smelt good and reminded me of you and Dad and old Muley. That's what I'm fighting for, Mom, a world in which there won't be no soldiers putting down their blankets right where old Muley wants to make fertilizer. Your loving son, Junior...
Shaken to the soles of his solid brogues, Leader Barkley quickly checked a dozen other Democratic Senators, found ever)' one livid with rage. The House postponed debate on the message, but off the floor 80-year-old Chairman Robert L. ("Muley") Doughton of the Ways & Means Committee was already spluttering his indignation at the message which "questioned our integrity or intelligence, or both." Alben Barkley kept a tight grip on himself and held his peace. After adjournment at 2:15 p.m., he went to his office and began to think. At his modest apartment on Connecticut Avenue...