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...traditional for the men of the House of Marlborough to marry pretty women, love the British Empire, dine well and raise hell in politics. Lord Randolph Churchill, father of Winston, had "force, caprice and charm." At times he also had bitter words for his colleagues in the House of Commons and blunt criticism of mismanaged government...
Last week, true to tradition, another Churchill had added his say about how Britain should be governed. He was the Prime Minister's brash and volatile son, Major Randolph Churchill, an M.P. for the Lancashire cotton-weaving town of Preston, who was on one of his leaves from duty in Egypt...
...read the committee some generalities that "The Treasury has diligently sought and will continue to seek funds from those sources where borrowing will have the least inflationary effect, and we have done so with what I believe to be most gratifying results." Then he hastily ducked out leaving Expert Randolph Paul and about two dozen other Treasury experts to face the committee...
...Randolph Evernghim Paul presented the Committee with his biggest tax proposal since he took this job last December. From his predecessor, John L. Sullivan, he had learned never to fight back at a committee. As a tax lawyer in Wall street and as a lecturer on taxation at Yale and Harvard he had learned how to explain and convince. (Says Chairman Doughton of Ways & Means of Paul: "He's about like all them other fellers they send up here, only he don't make...
...When Randolph Paul had finished, the Senate committee piled insult on reproof. It asked him to supply a Treasury proposal for a sales tax-one kind of tax which he has always opposed. As if he had known the worst in advance, Paul fished in his brief case and brought out a sales-tax proposal readymade...