Word: mckellars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bringing millions of Government dollars into his State, Tennessee's aging, knob-nosed, spoils-loving Senator Kenneth Douglas McKellar loves TVA. But he hates TVA's hard-working Director David E. Lilienthal. Last week, torn between love and hate, he turned his Valley grudge into a mountain feud...
...McKellar, premier Senate spoilsman, had once envisioned TVA as a wonderful new Tennessee source of political jobs- something juicier than marshalcies and postmasterships. Lilienthal refused to cut the melon. McKellar bided his time...
Last winter, after Pearl Harbor, the old Senator saw his chance. Lilienthal had decided to build Douglas Dam, on the French Broad River near Knoxville, to get another 100,000 kw. of power for aluminum expansion in a hurry. When McKellar saw that the land that would be flooded was 12,000 acres owned mostly by influential canning interests, who were his friends, he balked. Douglas Dam was blocked for two months...
Last fortnight, using all his legislative skill, Senator McKellar tried to attach a dog collar for TVA to an appropriation bill: he wanted to abolish TVA's revolving fund and thus make it run to Congress -and McKellar-for every penny of its building funds. Debate in the Senate was hot and mean; McKellar got so enraged that he scrambled his facts, to the point of losing geographical track of the Tennessee River. Gentle old Senator George W. Norris, father of TVA, said flatly that McKellar's amendment would be "almost disastrous." Lilienthal said its effect would...
Congress, caught in an election year with a paucity of real issues, is beginning to wield the economy axe on those agencies which it considers nonessential to the war effort. Included in that category are the NYA and CCC. Senator McKellar's Committee on Education and Labor is now considering a bill which abolishes the two and saves about $310,000,000. Despite strong Administration pressure to kill the bill, there is a very good chance that it will be passed by a Congress anxious to "get something done...