Word: kerrs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Oklahoma's Senator Bob Kerr is an oil-rich Democrat who makes no bones about sticking up for the oilmen's interests on Capitol Hill. Last year, he touched off one of the biggest fights of the year with a bill to exempt independent natural gas producers (i.e., those who own no interstate pipelines) from control of the Federal Power Commission. Bob Kerr won his battle in Congress, but suffered defeat at the hands of old friend Harry Truman, who vetoed the Kerr bill...
...last week Bob Kerr and the oilmen got what they wanted-thanks chiefly to another old Truman friend and fishing partner. FPC Chairman Mon Wallgren, former governor of Washington and Truman's hand-picked candidate for the FPC job, announced that FPC had decided that independent gas producers were not within its jurisdiction after all. The circumstances surrounding the announcement were odd: FPC, which usually takes weeks to hand down a decision, got this one out nine days after oral hearings were over on a test case concerning Phillips Petroleum Co., world's biggest natural gas producer. Chairman...
Died. Lord Inverchapel of Loch Eck (Archibald John Kerr Clark Kerr), 69, one of Britain's top career diplomats (42 years of service) and a chief adviser to the British representatives at the Potsdam, Yalta, Teheran and Cairo Conferences; of a heart attack; in Greenock, Scotland. Following four years as ambassador to Nationalist China's wartime capital, Chungking, he was sent to Moscow in 1942 for the war years, once spent two congenial hours with Stalin in a Kremlin bomb shelter during a Nazi air raid. His last assignment before retiring to his farm in Scotland: Ambassador...
...kado. The unmistakable political tenor of MacArthur's speeches drew quick fire from Oklahoma's trigger-happy Democratic Senator Robert S. Kerr. Said he: "If MacArthur's not a candidate for President, there's not a steer in Texas. The Mac-kado rides again!" Most everybody else seemed to take the general's own disclaimers at face value: before Congress, he had referred to himself as "in the fading twilight of life"; in Houston, asked if he would be a candidate for President, he replied, "Emphatically no." What was plainly clear was MacArthur...
During a day at the Senate Office Building, the Washington Red Cross bloodmobile got a donation from only one Senator: Oklahoma's Robert Kerr. "They're so busy, you know, with all these awful investigations going on," explained a Red Cross lady. "One girl just called me to say her Senator said he'd been sweating blood for a week with Secretary Acheson, and didn't have a drop left...