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...repeated attacks on his personal integrity and ability. In all this time neither personal enemies nor the private power interests have been able to discredit him or his work. Two years ago, in the noisy struggle over his appointment as AEC chairman, his intellectual values were challenged by Senator McKellar and his fellows--and Lilienthal's reply was a classic statement of democratic faith...
...toiled long & loyally for the Administration on Capitol Hill, and had stuck staunchly by Harry Truman in the dark days before Philadelphia. This week, for such services loyally rendered, Scott Lucas, 56, was chosen new Majority Leader of the Senate. (Tennessee's ancient Senator Kenneth McKellar, who became president pro tern, will inherit a purely honorary role and the use of a Cadillac limousine...
...Senator McKellar (attacked by Pearson for his reprehensible spoilsman's practices): "An ignorant liar, a pusillanimous liar, a peewee liar ... a paid liar ... a natural-born liar ... a liar by profession, a liar for a living ... a liar in the daytime and a liar in the nighttime . . . this 'revolving,' constitutional, unmitigated, infamous liar [and] scoundrel . . ." (And so on, for 30 minutes, while the Senator put off going to the bathroom. When he finally got there, fainting, he needed a doctor...
...York's ailing Robert F. Wagner, 71, has the seniority for the Banking & Currency chairmanship, and hopes to be well enough to take it. If not, the next in line is South Carolina's nails-hard, conservative Burnet Maybank, 49. Tennessee's querulous, old (79) Kenneth McKellar was on deck for the Appropriations Committee, Maryland's acidulous Millard E. Tydings for Armed Services, Georgia's Walter F. George for Finance...
...become Secretary of State, was the last elected Tennessee Senator who did not owe his seat to Boss Crump. For one year (1937-38), George Berry, an anti-Crump appointee, served in the Senate, was beaten in the following primary. Stalest Crumpet of all: 77-year-old Kenneth McKellar, a Senator for 31 years...