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Granite-faced old Robert L. ("Muley") Doughton, chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee, had at last been pushed from his stubborn stand against any tax "forgiveness." Majority Leader John W. McCormack, responding to Ad ministration pressure, and Tennessee's shrewd Jere Cooper, the committee's best tax brain, did the pulling and hauling. Old Muley now came out for cancellation of about half of 1942 taxes; the Demo cratic majority of his committee gave his bill a favorable report...
...deadlock, stubborn old Robert L. ("Muley") Doughton finally gave in. Lectured by Speaker Sam Rayburn, prodded unmercifully by Republicans, he called his Ways & Means Committee together, ordered it to report some kind of tax bill by this week...
...tied the knot with his own ham-sized hands was North Carolina's stubborn old Congressman Robert L. ("Muley") Doughton, chairman of the Ways & Means Committee. He and his committee stalwarts, their own bill repudiated, now refused to work out a compromise plan...
...week Congressmen pushed, shoved, pulled and prodded at Muley. Nine Republican committee members got up a round-robin petition to whip him into action. Seventy House Democrats goaded him with another petition...
Then House Republican Leader Joe Martin put the most painful burr of all under the harness. All Congressmen, including Muley Doughton, want to get away for a two-week Easter recess. Martin announced flatly that he would prevent the recess unless the House voted a pay-as-you-go compromise first. Old Muley Doughton grew red-faced and smoking hot, but he still balked...