Word: mckellars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Senator Kenneth McKellar, 77, happily availed himself of one of the cozier privileges of his pro-tern presidency of the Senate. The sulphurous, cob-nosed bachelor from Tennessee greeted visiting Gwin Barnwell, the South's "Cotton Maid," with a painstaking buss...
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...