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Senators Overton and McKellar tried to force an amendment limiting "flight skins" to a maximum of $1,500 a year. Junior officers could still take comfort: nobody below the rank of major, and only a few majors, would be affected-but senior officers in both services clamored loudly...
Miss America (The Bronx's Bess Meyerson, 21) got a gallery-eye view-of the U.S. Senate, which also got a look at her and applauded her bond-selling achievements'. Tennessee's sulphurous old Senator Kenneth McKellar, 76, got something extra before she left: a patriotic buss...
...Kenneth McKellar, President of the U.S. Senate, last week temporarily yielded his chair, stepped down to the floor and informed his astonished colleagues that he had solved the problem of the bomb. Outlaw it, said the gentleman from Tennessee...
...President's request promptly threw the spotlight on 63-year-old Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas, and on 76-year-old Kenneth McKellar of Tennessee, the Senate's presiding officer. To U.S. citizens, middle-of -the -roader Sam Rayburn, 31 years in Congress, seemed reasonable enough as a presidential possibility. But they quailed at the thought of crotchety, patronage-grabbing Kenneth McKellar, whose striped trousers seemed almost his sole presidential qualification...
...failed. Year after year TVA shunned politics, awarded jobs on a merit basis. Shaking with rage, Kenneth McKellar time & again rose in the Senate to denounce quiet, smooth-faced TVA Chairman David Eli Lilienthal, 45. Time & again, in the hope of clubbing TVA into submission, he sought to bring its day-by-day finances under the control of Congress. Frustrated, he bided his time and nursed his grudge. This spring many a Washington politico believed that the 76-year-old spoilsman had TVA squarely in his sights at last. His enemy, David Lilienthal, faced reappointment for a nine-year term...