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...dogs in the Senate now were acid-tongued, bombastic Tom Connally of Texas, floor manager of the poll-tax State foray; Mississippi's Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo, who once proposed deportation of Negroes to Liberia; Tennessee's bumbling Kenneth McKellar, still chafing from his arrest for dodging Senate attendance (TIME, Nov. 23); and owlish Joseph C. O'Mahoney of Wyoming, only Democratic Senator from a non-poll-tax State to take the floor against constitutionality of the bill. O'Mahoney said he had no love for poll taxes, but their abolition...
...determined to get action, got the Senate to order the arrest of eight missing members who were known to be in Washington. The sergeant at arms' staff routed Nevada's Senator Berkeley L. Bunker out of his office by using a passkey, captured Tennessee's Kenneth McKellar by inducing a chambermaid to unlock his hotel apartment. South Carolina's Senator Burnet R. Maybank, reached at his home by telephone, agreed to come quietly...
Said Tennessee's Senator Kenneth McKellar: "So far as I am concerned the answer...
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...
...McKellar pounded his amendment through. But this week he faced another stiff fight in the House-and in waging his feud he had let his popularity in TVA-loving Tennessee scrape bottom. Said the Chattanooga Times: "If the whole thing could be forgotten and everyone could go on with the war, such adjustments as may be needed in the TVA system . . . can be made at a time when the Japanese and Germans are not at our throats...