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...Washington last week Robert L. ("Muley") Doughton, chairman of the Ways & Means Committee, pulled his black slouch hat down over his gimlet eyes, picked up his grips in his ham-sized hands, and took train for his North Carolina tobacco-farming district...
Crotchety Robert L. ("Muley") Doughton, chairman of the prima donna-packed House Ways & Means Committee, felt the tax rub. His own soliloquy: "We are dealing with the most hateful, difficult problem that ever came along in the annals of mankind...
With committee tempers frayed, bluff Chairman Robert L. ("Muley") Doughton resorted to an old Washington device: he appointed a subcommittee to draft a compromise. What worried Muley Doughton most, however, was that U.S. citizens, looking toward pay-as-you-go as a sensible improvement in taxation methods, were not filing their 1943 returns with anything like the alacrity they showed last year. He warned taxpayers that the March 15 installment would be due this year, as in all previous years. Best estimate was that not until after the June 15 payment would tax collections be put on a current-income...
Vito Vetoed. The House, at last, got all its committee assignments straightened out, but not without some hurt feelings and one bitter scrap. All hell broke loose when North Carolina's conservative Robert ("Muley") Doughton submitted the name of New York's tough, pinko Vito Marcantonio as a member of the potent Judiciary Committee. Marcantonio, the only American Laborite in the House, had fought defense measures before the Nazi attack on Russia in 1941; afterwards he had screamed for an A.E.F. He had infuriated Southerners by plugging for bills against poll taxes and lynching. Croaked wrathful Judiciary Committee...
Taxes. Well aware that they must pass the biggest tax bill in U.S. history, Congressmen pored over plans and statistics. Mused "Muley" Doughton: Congressmen were doing nothing else but answering letters on the Ruml pay-as-you-go plan. Said Massachusetts' Allen Towner Treadway: "Pay-as-you-go collection of income taxes is absolutely imperative...