Word: mckellars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Call. Lilienthal's old enemies were jubilant. Cried Tennessee's aged Senator Kenneth McKellar, who had badgered Lilienthal ever since his days with the Tennessee Valley Authority: "The country is better off.", But Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas declared that David Lilienthal was a "great public servant" who deserved to know that "the great mass of Americans recognize the splendid work he has done." In a letter of unusual warmth and appreciation to "Dear Dave," President Harry Truman agreed. "Reluctantly and with the utmost regret," he accepted the resignation, but with the understanding that Lilienthal would still...
Senator Kenneth McKellar, 80, painfully burned by hot water when he took a tumble in the bathtub, refused to be photographed wearing pajamas in a Memphis hospital. He got out of bed, dressed, went back to bed fully clothed and then told the cameramen to shoot away...
Working hand-in-glove, the two old demagogues had used the legislative weapons given them by seniority to crowd into the whole field of foreign and domestic policy. Other members were threatened and badgered if they failed to go along with the McKellar-McCarran axis. Administration officials were called away from their jobs and up to Capitol Hill to be bullied and harassed. Under McCarran's chairmanship, the EGA watchdog committee (which wanted $344,000 expense money next year) had become a dirt-digging machine to supply Kenneth McKellar's rancorous attacks...
Sheepherders, Yes. Last week the first cracks in the McKellar-McCarran empire began to appear. With considerable courage, Majority Leader Scott Lucas had led the successful bipartisan drive to pass an EGA bill without the crippling amendments written into it by McKellar's Appropriations Committee. Example: McCarran's proposal to give $50 million to Franco's Spain. Victorious in that fight, Lucas then turned on Pat McCarran...
Republicans and six Democrats agreed to file a motion to order a D.P. bill out of the Judiciary Committee. If successful, it would be the first time a bill had been pried out of a Senate committee since 1932. It would also be the first real setback McCarran and McKellar had met since they set out to crack the whip over the Senate...