Word: mckellar
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...charge that northern Republicans, under Pew, and southern Democrats under me, adopted the Eastland-McKellar-McClellan voting bill is, on the record itself completely inaccurate. ... Of the 42 votes cast in favor of this legislation, 17 were cast by southern Democrats and six by northern Republicans, making a total of 23 or less than one-third of those Senators voting. The balance of 19 votes came from four northern Democrats, three western Democrats, and twelve western Republicans...
Hugh Butler's mathematics got quick corrections. Tennessee's bulb-nosed Kenneth McKellar interrupted Butler's oratory to set the cost of Good Neighborliness at $2,207 million. Few hours later, Interamerican Coordinator Nelson Rockefeller totted it up, got less than $600 million. Henry Wallace summed up: "fantastic figures ... a shocking slur...
...fears the British Empire, got himself some real headlines. Last week Gerald Nye told the press: the Senate, probably by Nov. 1, will launch a thoroughgoing investigation of all U.S. Lend-Lease expenditures. The investigating Senators (including Nye, Maryland's Millard E. Tydings and Tennessee's Kenneth McKellar) will look suspiciously into all U.S. funds spent abroad. Nye, longtime enemy of Lend-Lease, explained: "We don't know enough about what this country is doing abroad and what it may have promised...
Senator Kenneth Douglas McKellar, 74-year-old, fancy-dressing Tennessean, introduced a bill providing that Senators be given cards explaining that they are Senators. Reason: in Capitol offices many a guard has been keeping them at arm's length till they could prove their identity. The bill passed unanimously...
President Barclay remained, dignified and at ease. Everybody else waited. Time crawled. At last, desperately, Vice President Wallace called the Senate to order and recognized Senator McKellar, who rose to bring up an appropriations bill. Senator McKellar neatly yielded to Senator Taft. Senator Taft fielded the yield, tossed the ball swiftly to Senator Thomas of Utah. Then the Senate Sergeant at Arms, ex-Senator Wall Doxey of Mississippi, and Assistant Sergeant at Arms William Moseley Miller of the House stepped forward to inform President Barclay that the House was awaiting him. The President and his entourage left the chamber...