National Affairs: Little Georgia Democrat

Under the strain of devising new taxes, Representative James William Collier of Mississippi, Ways & Means chairman, last month collapsed, is now recovering in a Washington hospital. Into his place as acting chairman stepped Representative

Charles Robert Crisp of Georgia, son of the late great Charles Frederick Crisp, Speaker of the House. With the reputation of being the Democratic "brains" on the committee, Congressman Crisp last week took the House floor, delivered a stirring warning to his colleagues and to the country on the tax burdens ahead: "I have burned every bridge behind...

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