Word: mckellar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conflict of interests" is one of Washington's knottiest problems. From World War I, when Senator Kenneth McKellar probed Bernard Baruch's dollar-a-year men, to the Korean war, when Congressman Emanuel Celler investigated "Electric Charlie" Wilson's WOCs, the relations of the legislators to businessmen in Government has been marked by suspicion. Through five emergencies, including two world wars, some legislators have been unable to satisfy themselves completely that the Government, in taking advantage of the skills of businessmen, was not being short-changed somehow...
...Speakership, but not of his office suite. Mr. Sam, weary of swapping offices, told Joe to stay on in the Speaker's rooms. After 32 years in the Senate, Georgia's patriarchal Walter George, senior Democrat since the 1952 defeat of Tennessee's fiery-eyed Kenneth McKellar, will win the prestige of Mc-Kellar's old title, Senate President pro tempore...
...this lesson; on reaching the Senate he had been assigned to two of its most powerful units, the Judiciary and Appropriations committees. Under the seniority system, he had only to wait for time to run its course. He buttered up the Appropriations Committee chairman, Tennessee's Kenneth McKellar, who named Pat chairman of the key subcommittee dealing with funds for the State, Justice and Commerce Departments, thereby giving McCarran a stranglehold which he never really relinquished...
...Bridges let it be known that he wants to be chairman of the purse-holding Appropriations Committee even if he is majority leader. That means the committee will be far more efficient than it was in the last session under Tennessee's doddering, dawdling Kenneth McKellar. Bridges runs a busy, direct-action committee...
...nominations for Senator Tom Connally's seat. Florida's Spessard L. Holland, Virginia's Harry Byrd and Rhode Island's John O. Pastore are all but certain to be reelected. In Tennessee, Representative Albert Gore won his only battle when he beat veteran Senator Kenneth McKellar in last summer's primary...