Word: mckellar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Senate Foreign Relations Chief Tom Connally said he was ready to arm merchant ships. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox had already urged repeal. Utah's bald, easygoing Senator Elbert D. Thomas came out for repeal. Tennessee's pompous, vest-piped Senator Kenneth D. McKellar introduced a ten-line bill to repeal the Act. Speaker Sam Rayburn predicted that the prohibition against arming U.S. merchant ships would be repealed "after some fighting and scratching around...