Word: mckellars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week the Senate stood in recess. North Carolina's Joe Bailey and Tennessee's Kenneth McKellar stayed on the floor. But most Southern members were conspicuously absent. Escorted by a committee of four, including Alabama's Lister Hill, a slender, smiling Negro entered the Senate chamber, mounted the rostrum. The members of his party were ushered to their seats. Then Vice President Henry Wallace introduced him: "Members of the Senate, ladies and gentlemen, I introduce to you the President of Liberia...
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...
...Senator McKellar justifies his plan with the contention that civil service conflicts with the letter of the Constitution, thus making a direct attack on the backbone of the U. S. government. He passed unnoticed the Constitutional provision that "the Congress may by law vest the appointment of such inferior offices as they think proper in the heads o departments." In view of the excellent record which the civil service has had in the past, it would be absurd to revert from a satisfactory procedure to old and inadequate methods...
Ironically, it was the hand of another political boss that sealed Ed Flynn's doom. His rejection by the Senate had not been certain until Tennessee's Senator Kenneth McKellar announced his opposition, at the behest of Tennessee's aging Democratic Boss Edward H. Crump. What Ed Crump's reasons were remained obscure, but in whatever political revenge he achieved he had helped others express resentment at cynical politics...
...special committee meeting of five Senators was called to discuss Jurney's job; Senator McKellar nominated Mississippi's lameduck Senator Wall Doxey to replace him. The legislators, meeting secretly, called in Jurney, made him argue hard & long for his job. At week's end no decision was apparent. Jurney's destiny will wait upon the committee report and a Senate vote...