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...political equation into the civil service. On the theory that most men selected as Prohibition agents, and transferred last year from the Department of Justice's Prohibition Bureau to the Treasury's Alcohol Tax Unit, were Republicans, Tennessee's wrinkle-faced old Senator Kenneth Douglas McKellar at the last session of Congress adroitly tacked a rider on the Emergency Appropriation Act. It stipulated that the 1,195 investigators and special investigators (salaries: $2,600 and $2,900) transferred to the Alcohol Tax Unit would have to stand a competitive examination with all comers for their jobs. Civil...
Senator Kenneth Douglas McKellar, for 23 years a Democratic jobholder from Tennessee. In the Senate he is better known for his windy speeches than his words of wisdom...
...President's wishes for aviation's New Deal, as set forth by letter March 7 and embodied in like bills by Representative Mead (New York) and Senators Black (Alabama) and McKellar (Tennessee) were as follows...
ADAMS GEORGE REYNOLDS ASHURST HATCH RUSSELL BACHMAN HAYDEN SMITH BONE LONERGAN THOMAS BULOW LONG (Okla.) CARAWAY McADOO THOMAS CLARK McCARRAN (Utah) COPELAND McGlLL WALSH COSTIGAN McKELLAR WHEELER DILL NEELY DUFFY OVERTON...
...persistent Washington rumor of last week was that President Roosevelt had been nagged into canceling the airmail contracts by Senators Black and McKellar who felt the airmail investi- gation was about to expire for lack of public attention unless the White House acted dramati-cally...