Word: taxed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what really shattered Mills's prestige was the inept performance of the Ways & Means Committee so far this year. Mills failed to get committee backing for his own proposals for revising the tax laws on cooperatives, depletion allowances and overseas investments, had to put them aside until next year. It took the committee months of floundering to settle on a measure to finance highway construction. Faced with President Eisenhower's request for removal of interest-rate ceilings on long-term Treasury bonds. Mills proposed three different solutions. failed to muster adequate support for any of them, wearily gave...
...Representatives was Arkansas' courtly, bass-voiced Wilbur Daigh Mills. With his combination of brains, earnestness and Southern charm. Mills was liked and respected on both sides of the aisle. Two years ago, at 48, he became the youngest chairman in the history of Congress' most important committee, tax-writing Ways & Means, and he showed promise of being a great one. He already knew more about the complexities of federal fiscal policy than any other man in the House. Sam Rayburn leaned on Mills's advice in fiscal matters, seemed to be grooming him for the Speakership...
...have Wilbur Mills and his committee fallen that House wags are calling it the No-Ways & By-No-Means Committee. The prospects seem dim that Mills will be able to recapture firm enough control to carry out his grand design of re-codifying the nation's patchwork of tax laws. And hardly anyone in the House of Representatives still regards Mills as a potential Speaker...
Robert C. Lockwood, a 41-year-old Miami insurance adjuster, had tax troubles. The Internal Revenue Service claimed he owed $415.69 in back taxes. Lockwood insisted he owed nothing. The collectors put on the pressure, and Lockwood, like many another before him, buckled. He signed a waiver permitting the Government to attach his paycheck. Said he: "I just gave up. I'm a little guy. I didn't figure I could fight the Government...
...sooner had Robert Lockwood signed that waiver than he had more than tax troubles. He had wife troubles. Pretty Margaret Ann Lockwood, 28, gathered up her children-René, 2, and ten-month-old Robbie-and marched into the Miami tax collector's office to demand return of her husband's paycheck. Says she: "I told them Robbie had just got out of the hospital, where he was treated for acute anemia, and we needed the money for medicine. They wouldn't listen. They're rather coldhearted and impersonal down there." But Margaret Lockwood...