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Dour, white-haired old Allen Towner Treadway has represented Massachusetts' First District in Congress for 29 of his 74 years. Banker, insurance-company director, hotel owner, Treadway has been an able peacetime servant of his constituents, has well served the Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers as an unofficial watchdog on tax legislation. His knowledge of tax matters is profound and broad...
Scented Chambers. The musky smell that Congressmen thought they detected on the floor of the House was nothing to what came from the committee room itself. The ten Republican members of the committee, led by Massachusetts' Allen Treadway, issued a nose-holding minority report, aimed at the New Deal's failure to make any real dent in the non-defense spending that made the tremendous new tax bill for defense necessary...
...Treadway's nine dissenters (smugly ignoring the fact that most Republicans vote solidly with Democrats on money-grabbing-bills) went to town protesting against "the prodigality of the New Deal spenders" who got the Government into this fix., "These wastrels," said the report, "have engaged in the greatest peacetime orgy of" extravagance in history. . . . The defense: program did not precipitate the present crisis in Government financing, but merely-made it more acute...
...emerged from conference in final form, passed Senate and House without a roll call, went to the President's desk for signature. The bill had been ordered by the President two months ago to prevent war millionaires. Far from doing that, shouted Massachusetts' Allen Treadway, "this bill sets up a new class of war millionaires-namely, so-called tax experts. Anyone who can explain this can become a millionaire overnight." Senator Vandenberg, who had had a succés with the phrase a few weeks before, repeated "I still think it is an imponderable mess." The President himself...
...latest Townsend Bill, Doughton & Co. got the House Rules Committee to push it onto the floor this week, ban all amendments and force a roll-call vote. "I think you fellows just took this monkey off your backs," joshed Rulesman Martin Dies of Texas. Massachusetts' Republican Allen Treadway, who teased Townsenditcs in his district with half-promises, was pressed for his opinion of the Doughton scheme. "I have told you time and again that I didn't give a continental damn!" fumed Mr. Treadway. Dr. Francis Everett Townsend conceded that his new bill would immediately give oldsters only...