Word: reed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...revenues lies waiting. The President had insisted that Congress extend EPT for six months from its July 1 expiration in order to keep up sagging revenues. But extension depended largely on the attitude of the Ways & Means Committee, and guarding the committee was a gruff old troll named Dan Reed...
...Lobbying. Reed and most of his committeemen were adamantly opposed to EPT extension, even for the six months (to Jan. 1) asked by the President. Most U.S. taxpayers outside the unlimited expense-account belt were inclined to agree with Reed because EPT is a cumbersome, debilitating tax. Even the Administration's tax experts agreed that EPT should die-but not until next January (when it will be good politics to reduce income taxes along with the demise...
...Taft had been running a slight temperature for a month, and he had severe pain in his right hip. After four days in the Army's Walter Reed Hospital, he flew home to Cincinnati and checked in at Holmes Hospital. There, one evening last week, he wrapped a blue robe around his bright yellow pajamas and dictated a speech. The next night, in the brilliant Hall of Mirrors of Cincinnati's Netherland Plaza hotel, Taft's second son, Lawyer Robert Taft Jr., stepped before a dinner of the National Conference of Christians & Jews and read his father...
...time Joe Martin called his meeting, he knew that Dan Reed was weakening. Both Martin and G.O.P. Majority Leader Charlie Halleck poured a generous pitcher of political syrup. There had been a lot of talk about undercutting his old buddy, Dan Reed, said Joe, and everybody surely knew that was just talk. He respected Dan's position, and wanted to talk to all the committee's Republicans on the President's proposals. He made it clear that the Republican leadership was ready to go down the line for the President...
...After Reed's Ways & Means men reported their decision to hold hearings, Joe Martin gently prodded them into fixing June 1 as the starting date, with the hope that the job would be finished in ten days. With that, Joe Martin could draw an easier breath; the first phase of his job was done, and not a drop of Republican blood had been spilled. At week's end the prospects were that the extension of EPT would be voted by the House. Said one House leader: "A week ago I would have bet you 20 to 1 there...