TAXES
Every day last week six tax strategists, Democrats and Republicans, sweated be hind closed doors, trying to write a tax bill acceptable to everybody. At week's end a pay-as-you-go tax bill at last seemed in sight.
Granite-faced old Robert L. ("Muley") Doughton, chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee, had at last been pushed from his stubborn stand against any tax "forgiveness." Majority Leader John W. McCormack, responding to Ad ministration pressure, and Tennessee's shrewd Jere Cooper, the committee's best tax brain, did the pulling and hauling. Old Muley now...
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