Word: mckellar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since he came to the U.S. Senate in 1917, Tennessee's bulb-nosed Kenneth Douglas McKellar has kept an unwavering eye on the pork barrel. Last week his colleagues discovered that Kenneth McKellar had raised his sights. Still peering sharply for old-fashioned patronage, he began a cloakroom campaign to become Senate President pro tempore-a position which Virginia's able, venerable, but ailing Carter Glass will abandon when the 79th Congress convenes...
...have just read with interest your account of the "Brotherly Greed" of Senators Reynolds, McKellar and Chandler (TIME, Aug. 28), who happily propose that the U.S. take permanent possession of Bermuda, Trinidad, Jamaica, the Bahamas and other British territory (not to mention numerous possessions of France, Holland, Russia, Mexico, Ecuador...
...spite of your sneering references to the "cardboard" statesmen, Senators McKellar and Reynolds, the idea of accepting certain islands in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans in part payment of World War I and II debts has a great deal of merit. For once someone is not afraid to remind our gallant allies that there is still a large unpaid balance on some old obligations...
...like Reynolds, McKellar and Chandler should have their ears slapped down by the State Department every time they speak out of turn on international affairs...
...nominate the McKellar-Reynplds-Chandler "island acquisitions" discussions as the best comedy script of the year...