Word: patly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Morgenthau & Hanes about the possibility of removing tax deterrents to Business (capital stock, capital gains, undistributed-profits taxes, the rule disallowing profit-&-loss offsets from one year to the next). The President was described as agreeable to most of their suggestions so long as revenue is not cut. Chairman Pat Harrison of the Senate Finance Committee, field marshal of Vice President Garner's Economy bloc (see col. 3), sat in on one session, after which he described the President's tax attitude as "fine, harmonious...
Baiting an Administration's chief fiscal officer is no new pastime for hard-shelled, money-wise old Senator Glass. Neither is it for Mississippi's long-legged, long-nosed Pat Harrison. Together they were the most painful and damaging Democratic snipers on the flanks of the Harding, Coolidge and Hoover Administrations. Then their victims were shy old Andrew Mellon and Utah's mournful Reed Smoot, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. Four years of responsibility as Senate Finance Chairman during the first New Deal and a lifetime habit of party loyalty changed Pat Harrison from a sniper...
Last week, still Finance Chairman but never more strongly with the Opposition, Pat Harrison saluted Secretary Morgenthau's presence on Capitol Hill by issuing to the press a statement which met the Administration's monetary program headon. Said...
...questioners Pat Harrison specified a 10% overall slash in this year's Federal expenses. Knowing well that fixed charges of some $2,300,000,000 (for debt interest, Social Security, tax refunds, revolving funds and the like) could not be touched to effect such a saving, Pat Harrison snorted: "I know that a lot of this emergency stuff could be cut to hell...
...honest showdown, not only Vice President Garner and influential Senators like South Carolina's Byrnes would be found at Pat Harrison's side, but perhaps even loyal Chairman Bob Doughton of the House Ways & Means Committee. At week's end Bob Doughton joined Pat Harrison in a joint letter to Mr. Morgenthau which could be construed either as a goodwill gesture or as another, specific challenge. In tones of warmest welcome they invited the Secretary of the Treasury to make good, after reviewing the income tax returns that will come in March 15, on his promise...