Word: treadways
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...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...