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- May 11, 1992: Died:Wilbur Mills
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- May 11, 1992 L.A.:"Can We All Get Along?"
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 17
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- <p> DIED. Wilbur Mills, 82, powerful former chairman of the House
- Ways and Means Committee; in Searcy, Ark. After gaining a seat
- on the prestigious committee in 1943, the young Arkansas
- Democrat became its pre-eminent authority on taxation and
- longtime chairman. His career declined abruptly after a 1974
- drunken-driving incident that landed Fanne Fox, a stripper, in
- Washington's Tidal Basin. In his later years he was an active
- advocate of alcoholism treatment.
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