Word: kerrs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Greye, doubts were expressed on how successful Kennedy will be in securing the reforms which he says will compensate for $3.5 billion of the $13.5 billion total out. Even with the death of Oklahoma's Robert Kerr, the Senate oil king. Hutters remained skeptical about the adoption of significant reforms in of depletion allowance, the most flagrant of the existing leopholes. "About 20 other people would have to die too," he remarked...
...Hell with a Bucket. Oklahoma's Kerr was also chairman of the Rivers and Harbors subcommittee, which rolls out the pork barrel. When other Senators wanted approval of pet home-state spending projects, they had to come to Kerr-and he always remembered his debtors. He was as ruthless in public debate as in private trading. He once made a Senate speech claiming that Republican Dwight Eisenhower could not comprehend the nation's fiscal policies, "because one cannot do that without brains, and he does not have them." There upon Indiana's loyal but hapless Republican Senator...
When Lyndon Johnson became Vice President two years ago, he left a vacuum in effective Senate leadership. In such vacuums, power goes to those who seek it. Kerr sought it and, even though he held no official leadership title, he soon became known as the Senator to see to get things done. He was, said the late Speaker Sam Rayburn, the "kind of man who would charge hell with a bucket of water and think he could put it out." When he first went to the Senate, he was worth about $3,000,000; at the time of his death...
Because of Kerr, Oklahoma did every bit as well. Last year Kerr's state received about 10% of all federal works projects. In the years before Kerr went to the Senate, the Army engineers had spent some $63 million on Oklahoma water-development projects; they have since spent an estimated $312 million. In October 1961 President Kennedy flew to Kerr's 55,000-acre ranch near Big Cedar to dedicate a road that, in the words of one Oklahoma paper, "starts nowhere in particular and goes to a suburb of the same place." Even at the height...
Died. Robert Samuel Kerr, 66, Oklahoma Senator famed for his wealth and his sharp tongue; of a heart attack; in Washington (see THE NATION...