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With relief, the Senate then turned to the domestic arena. Here was familiar ground. Once again Tennessee's cob-nosed Kenneth McKellar was on his feet, attacking a TVA appointment-this time that of Gordon Clapp, 41, to succeed David Lilienthal as chairman. Gone was the vindictive hatred that had given his denunciation of Lilienthal a certain rheumy dignity. He talked to an almost deserted floor...
Tennessee's Senator Kenneth D. McKellar, 78, one of the capital's specialists in bussing pretty girls for the photographers, got a grip on Hilma Seay, 1947 Maid of Cotton, and went into his specialty (see att). The kiss brought her no luck: she was about to take off for France when news came that a dock fire at Le Havre had destroyed $2,000,000 worth of U.S. cotton she was going over to welcome...
...there a case against David Lilienthal? Thus far his principal opponents-rallying around Tennessee's Senator McKellar-had been rabid anti-New Dealers, anti-Semites, bitter foes of Government control, or men who insisted that the Atomic Energy Commission chairman should be above the suspicion they themselves had cast. Their case had been based on politics, prejudice and pork-barreling.* Last week Ohio's Senator Robert Taft thought he had other grounds for opposition...
...Taft's own Republican Party two strong voices spoke. One was that of Senate President "pro tem Arthur Vandenberg. "Being on the jury," he refused to state his own position, but he implied it clearly. It was Vandenberg who read into the record the Compton warning. When Senator McKellar insisted that Communism in the TVA was a responsibility of Lilienthal's, Vandenberg replied acidly: "Former Senator La Follette wrote an article in which he said there were Communists working for the Senate. I did not see any Senators assuming responsibility...
Senator Taft had best take to laying cornerstones and kissing local infants. His appeal to thinking men, along with Senator McKellar's equilibrium, has been lost in the testimony...