Word: cob
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Free beer, cigarettes, ice cream, and soda will also greet all fun-seeking Freshmen who Geek to Sauders for the much-heralded affair. Corn-Cob pipes may also be given away as seventies said the countries. Purchase of a percent program will cover the admission...
With relief, the Senate then turned to the domestic arena. Here was familiar ground. Once again Tennessee's cob-nosed Kenneth McKellar was on his feet, attacking a TVA appointment-this time that of Gordon Clapp, 41, to succeed David Lilienthal as chairman. Gone was the vindictive hatred that had given his denunciation of Lilienthal a certain rheumy dignity. He talked to an almost deserted floor...
Answering the roll call of last week's extraordinary caucus were such practiced pork-barrelers as Tennessee's cob-nosed Kenneth McKellar, Mississippi's Bilbo and Rankin, Louisiana's paunchy John Overton. Bilbo, still convalescing from inflammation of the mouth (see PEOPLE), apologized for his inability to orate. Overton, running two degrees of fever, left early. But others jumped up to accuse Harry Truman of defying the will of Congress...
Primary results last week: ¶ In Tennessee, cob-nosed Kenneth D. McKellar, premier porkbarreler and 77-year-old dean of the U.S. Senate, won renomination over Edward W. Carmack Jr., endorsed by C.I.O. and the Nashville Tennessean. Neither McKellar nor renominated Governor Jim McCord needed the usual thumping 40,000 majority delivered by Boss E. H. Crump's Shelby County machine, but they got it anyhow. McKellar also swept bloody McMinn County...
Senator Kenneth McKellar, 77, happily availed himself of one of the cozier privileges of his pro-tern presidency of the Senate. The sulphurous, cob-nosed bachelor from Tennessee greeted visiting Gwin Barnwell, the South's "Cotton Maid," with a painstaking buss...