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Last week the House:

>> Received a new $2,142,900,000 tax bill (about one-fifth of the Treasury's $10.5 billion request) from its nervous Ways & Means Committee. More than half of the new revenue would come from upped postal rates (three cents on in-town letters, eight cents on air mail) and whopping excises (including a $9-per-gal. tax on liquor).

>> Quietly buried in the drowsy Agriculture Committee a bill to remove the discriminatory taxes on oleomargarine, which keep it from undercutting butter.

The Senate:

>> Resolved, with the House, that Dec. 7 should be celebrated throughout the nation this year as "Armed Services Honor Day"--less than 24 hours after Franklin Roosevelt had let it be known that he thought it was a bad idea to mark that "day of infamy" at all.

>> Braced itself for another session of filibustering by Mississippi's bantam, bombastic Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo, as both House and Senate Judiciary Committees approved another anti-poll-tax bill. "The Man" assured the Senate that there would be "free and unlimited coinage of words."

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