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...stuck his greying head inside. "Hold up a minute," he shouted. Then Ken Wherry politely stood back while 30 hushed and awed ladies tiptoed in. "These are good Nebraska girls," explained Wherry as the ladies giggled. "I wanted them to see this great committee." One by one Chairman Kenneth McKellar, Defense Secretary Louis Johnson, Admiral Forrest Sherman and Generals Omar Bradley, Hoyt Vandenberg and Lightnin' Joe Collins rose to bow as Wherry introduced them. Then, Wherry led the girls out again, and the committee settled down to talk about the fate of the Western world...
Tennessee's aged (81) Kenneth McKellar, who sometimes appears to be dozing at his front-row desk, snapped up like an aroused tomcat. Did the Senate mean to disregard the experience of his committee, which had approved all of these fine projects? By a vote of 47 to 28, the Senators said certainly not. Big Paul Douglas had lost again...
Kenneth D. McKellar, Democrat from Tennessee, 81, relentless in his prejudices, vicious in his vendettas. Under the congressional rules which promote men by seniority instead of ability, Spoilsman McKellar wields immense power. As chairman of the Senate's money-spending machinery, he browbeats and bullies Senators who need his approval for their pet projects. He badgered David Lilienthal because Lilienthal refused to load TVA with McKellar patronage, yelped that ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman ought to resign for the good of the country. A Senator longer than any of his colleagues (33 years), Kenneth McKellar, hell-raiser in committee...
Patrick A. (Pat) McCarran, Democrat from Nevada, 73, pompous, vindictive and power-grabbing-a sort of McKellar with shoes on. Working hand in glove with McKellar, he tied the 81st Congress' appropriations machinery in knots, staged a one-man committee filibuster against a liberalized bill to admit D.P.s to the U.S., and almost succeeded -with McKellar-in mutilating the Marshall Plan last summer. To control or retaliate against Senators who stand up against him, the silver-haired spokesman of the silver bloc swings a big club: chairmanship of the Judiciary Committee, which passes on all claims against the Government...
...Call. Lilienthal's old enemies were jubilant. Cried Tennessee's aged Senator Kenneth McKellar, who had badgered Lilienthal ever since his days with the Tennessee Valley Authority: "The country is better off.", But Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas declared that David Lilienthal was a "great public servant" who deserved to know that "the great mass of Americans recognize the splendid work he has done." In a letter of unusual warmth and appreciation to "Dear Dave," President Harry Truman agreed. "Reluctantly and with the utmost regret," he accepted the resignation, but with the understanding that Lilienthal would still...