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Backstage. In spite of professional performances by Tom Connally and his supporting company-which included such seasoned troupers as Mississippi's Bilbo, Alabama's Bankhead and Tennessee's McKellar (see cut)-none but the most gullible galleryite was taken in. Everybody else knew that a cynical Senate had quietly made an election-year deal, arranged everything backstage in advance. There would be 1) no filibuster, 2) no cloture, 3) no Marcantonio bill...
Like Franklin Roosevelt and Cordell Hull, Senator Kenneth Douglas McKellar considers Columnist Drew Pearson a liar. Last week on the Senate floor the feuding, 75-year-old Tennessean said so, 23 times, in a speech covering three and a half pages of the Congressional Record...
...columns, Washington Merry-Go-Rounder Pearson rehashed some old stories about McKellar's choleric temper and his insatiable hunger for patronage. That afternoon the bulb-nosed Senator took advantage of a large audience, proceeded to bellow for over an hour what he chose to title "Personal Statement about a Lying Human Skunk." Excerpts: "Pearson is just an ignorant liar, a pusillanimous liar, a peewee liar, even if he is a paid liar. . . . When a man is a natural-born liar, a liar during his manhood and all the time, a congenital liar, a liar by profession, a liar...
...Senate was divided on a point of order. The debate swayed to & fro. But suddenly Vice President Henry Wallace's parliamentary foot slipped. In trying to rule on the delicate tangle, Mr. Wallace described Senator McKellar's latest move as "a legislative trick...
...Damnable!" cried the outraged Tennessean. Mr. Wallace hastily withdrew the remark. But the damage was done. An offended Senate crushed Mr. Wallace's ruling (46 to 17), then pressed on to pass the bill along McKellar lines. TVA's hopes rested on the House...