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...Valley of the Tennessee were ill-faring land. Floods devastated the lowlands and rains eroded the deforested hills. There was little industry. The malaria-ridden people were as impoverished as the soil. Like Aesop's fabled dog in the manger, Tennessee's paunchy, vituperative Senator Kenneth McKellar championed the land and the people; he wanted no improvements without patronage. When the vast, experimental Tennessee Valley Authority was created in 1933 he set out to force the spoils system upon...
Harry Truman showed that he knew how to step up and take on a fight. Over the wrathful objections of Senate President Kenneth McKellar, he nominated David E. Lilienthal for another nine-year term as chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority...
...President coolly announced the appointment only 24 hours after beet-nosed Mr. McKellar and his Tennessee colleague, Senator Tom Stewart, had called at the White House to try to head it off. Said McKellar: "We protested with all the vigor and zeal we have...
Loud-mouthed Kenneth McKellar had been roaring against businesslike, liberal-minded TVAman Lilienthal for several years, had carried on a patronage feud with him with all the passion of a home-state mountaineer. But last week McKellar discovered that, despite his new power in the Senate, he had been boxed in. Good friend Truman had already enhanced the McKellar prestige by inviting him to attend Cabinet meetings; the Senator from Tennessee could ill afford a last-ditch patronage row at the very start of the Truman Administration...
...appointing Lilienthal the President had risked a test in Congress, but it looked as though McKellar would have to be content. Politician McKellar was in the hands of a man who knew the business...