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Nebraska's Mullen...
...Congress in 1913 by way of law practice in Kansas, sat for six years as an active tax legislator. He was Mayor of Salina, Kans. for five years, chairman of the Democratic State Committee in the campaigns of 1930 and 1932. Kansas' once-potent Democrat Arthur Mullen got him appointed Internal Revenue Commissioner in 1933 over considerable objection by Republican Senators. Though he compromised last week with one famed income tax evader (see col. 2), Commissioner Helvering has distinguished himself chiefly by his firm stand against tax compromises...
...Arthur Mullen, Democratic boss of Nebraska, had traveled to meet Mr. Roosevelt in the Rockies and put that quotation in his ear. For the eloquent Congressman was Nebraska's Edward R. Burke and the President was giving him a backhanded boost to capture Nebraska's Democratic nomination for Senator...
Last year when Nebraska's Senator Howell died, Governor Charles W. Bryan, brother of William Jennings, defied Boss Mullen, and named his own man, William Henry Thompson, to the job. Since then Governor Bryan and the New Deal have grown progressively apart. Last April, "Brother Charley" announced his candidacy for the Senate against Representative Burke, tried to outdeal the New Deal in his radical campaign. Against him was thrown all the weight of the Roosevelt Administration...
...began to fall by the handful. By last week it became apparent that this phase of the New Deal was leading to a new Democratic shuffle of the political cards in the dexterous fingers of James Aloysius Farley, Postmaster General and chairman of the National Committee. ¶ Arthur Francis Mullen, Committeeman from Nebraska, resigned to continue a lucrative political law practice in Washington. Last week in a stormy Democratic meeting at Grand Island, Neb. Mr. Mullen shouted: "I represent the President here." At his command his henchman, Keith Neville, was elected National Committeeman in his stead. ¶Nellie Tayloe Ross...