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Chances for a tax bill this year looked very slim. Main reason for the delay: Congressional GOPsters, quietly abetted by many a vote-minded Democrat, staged a revolt. The revolt turned into a coup. By week's end Congress seemed agreed: no economy in the Administration, no tax bill. Furthermore, went the argument, the Administration had yet to demonstrate a real need for another $10.5 billion...
Boss of New York's capital city is Democrat Dan O'Connell, a pudgy, bespectacled, saloonkeeper's son. For years Republicans have pointed to Albany's horse rooms and slot machines, to saloons that ran all night selling Hedrick beer, manufactured by the O'Connell family, to high local tax assessments, to the unwillingness of industry to move to Albany and "put its head in the bag." But under nine consecutive Democratic administrations, the O'Connells enjoyed immunity...
...long ago as 1938 Tom Dewey pledged a clean-up of Albany's O'Connell machine. Last week, deftly timed before Election Day, Governor Dewey was making good. As part of his campaign to elect Republican Joe R. Hanley as Lieutenant Governor over Democrat Lieut. General William N. Haskell, Tom Dewey was investigating : 1) a $1,600,000 bookkeeping shortage in Albany's capital funds, 2) "wholesale and shocking violations of the election law," 3) Albany tax assessments, which for years have been rigged to favor O'Connell friends and punish O'Connell enemies...
Almost before the Secretary had finished reading his prepared statement, the U.S. Treasury's design for extracting another $10,500,000,000.00 from the U.S. pocketbook was mackerel-dead. Cried Democrat Robert L. ("OF Muley") Doughton, head of the Ways & Means Committee: "Utterly indefensible." Cried Republican Harold Knutson: "How much of it is for revenue and how much is for politics...
...Democrat (and American Labor Party-endorsed) Lieut. General William Nafew Haskell, 65, was launched by the Independent Citizens' Committee. Bluff, ramrod-stiff General Haskell is a veteran of the Philippines (1902) and St. Mihiel (1918). Said he: ". . . Presidentially ambitious Tom Dewey wants his own hand-picked successor...