Last week Kentucky's rangy, long-faced Representative Fred Moore Vinson rose in the House to put the finishing touches on a job that has kept him sweating since last November, when he started work as chairman of a Ways & Means Subcommittee to draft the Revenue Bill of 1938. Well-informed Taxman Vinson took the floor without notes. The bill he proposed to defend against all comers was neither his committee's nor the much-amended Senate bill sponsored by Pat Harrison. It was a patched up compromise between the two, which the Senate had hustled...
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