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...Longest-sitting Democrat: Tennessee's McKellar (32 years). Alltime recordholder: Wyoming Republican Francis D. Warren, who served a total of 37 years between 1890 and his death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KANSAS: Finis for Capper | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

...that "Sleepy Tom" Stewart had done any wrong. Like Tennessee's other Senator, choleric old Kenneth McKellar, he knew where Mister Crump stood on most issues and acted accordingly. When anybody, anywhere, took Mister Crump's name in vain, Tom Stewart was likely to rise up on the Senate floor to defend "the South's greatest leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TENNESSEE: Ready for Trouble | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

...Lilienthal's favorite movie actor was the late W. C. Fields, "and not because he looks like Kenneth McKellar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: On the Other Side of the Moon | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

...Senator McKellar, unable to forgive Lilienthal for not opening the payroll of TVA to McKellar patronage, is the god-father of one of five pending bills designed to do away with the Atomic Energy Commission. Another implacable foe of the Commission is J. Parnell Thomas who operates by the subtler procedure of periodically releasing stories relating how the Patent Office has given Russia all our atomic know-how, or that an Oak Ridge employee has a wife who works for the Soviet Embassy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sun Stroke | 7/11/1947 | See Source »

...relic of an older day and an older creed of senatorial seniority and personal privilege, Kenneth McKellar sat, bowed and disconsolate, as his colleagues voted 36-to-31 to confirm Gordon Clapp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Congress' Week, May 5, 1947 | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

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