Word: kem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Inheritors. The moving spirit of the gathering was Majority Whip Kenneth Wherry, the ex-isolationist from Nebraska. Among the conferees were such diehard inheritors of the old isolationist tradition as Ohio's John Bricker, Illinois' "Curley" Brooks, Missouri's James Kem. In all, 20 Republican Senators turned up. Except for California's Bill Knowland, all were men who had been stirring restlessly under the bipartisan policy. All had been growing increasingly critical of Arthur Vandenberg's willingness to work with the Administration...
...Kem, charged once again that Clark's investigation of Kansas City's vote frauds in last year's congressional primary (TIME, June 16) was "whitewash." But the Republicans ran into a three-day Democratic talkfest which effectively blocked a vote on the Kem resolution. It looked as if denizens of that alley wanted no snoopers...
...Senator Kem (R-Mo) had suggested that the House take on the job. He has a resolution pending for a Senate investigation but Democrats are threatening to talk it to death, under the Senate's rules permitting unlimited debate, if Republicans persist in seeking a vote...
There were reports that Senate Republicans might seek to bypass the stalemate by efforts to have either the Senate expenditures or rules committee make an inquiry similar to that suggested by Kem...
...chairman Aiken (R-Vt) said he doubts that his expenditures group has the wide authority necessary to take up Kem's charges that Clark "whitewashed" a justice department investigation of alleged vote buying in the Kansas City primary...