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...most interesting case is that of Senator McKellar. This ardent champion of making the foreigner pay regardless of the consequences is a representative of the State of Tennessee. According to the World Almanac, Tennessee is primarily an agricultural state producing lumber, tobacco, cotton, corn and cattle. In 1930 it appears that of the total American production of tobacco 40% was exported, of cotton nearly 45%, of lard about 29%. It is plain, then, that the prosperity of Tennessee is intimately dependent upon a flourishing foreign trade and upon a recovery of world prices...
...would suppose that Senator McKellar of Tennessee would be greatly interested in every measure designed to improve the purchasing power of the outer world, that his chief and his constant concern would be the restoration of the world economy. But not at all. Senator McKellar's notion of how to serve the people of Tennessee is to treat their customers as if they were brigands. And to what end? That the United States Treasury should continue to exact from their customers payments which, if not received, must be borne by the taxpayers of the United States...
...Inconceivable!" Belief that the published text of the "gentlemen's agreement" is a red herring to distract attention from some understanding still more devious was voiced cautiously in London by former Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill and bluntly in Washington by Senator Kenneth McKellar (Dem.) who said...
...Geneva Conference. Senator Reed, military affairs committee chairman, hoped it would be accepted. Senator King found it had "some merit." In Paris General Pershing called it "fair and just ... a concrete and statesmanlike plan which should receive immediate approval." Sour notes were struck by Tennessee's Senator McKellar ("Nonsense") and Mississippi's Representative Collins ("Silly"). The U. S. Press generally acclaimed it as able." "timely and bold," "sensible," "irrefutable" ¶To find a successor to Charles Gates Dawes on the board of Reconstruction Finance Corp., President Hoover last week looked to Iowa and appointed Gardner Cowles, 71-year...
Tennessee's McKellar accused the President of "bad faith" on economy. Arkansas' Robinson, Democratic leader, fulminated...