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...elbow their way inside. Lights glared while newsreel cameras waited. Senators basked in more publicity than they had had in months. Promptly at 10:30, bareheaded and wearing a grey suit without a vest, Col. Lindbergh strode in amid a thunder of applause. He shook hands with Chairman McKellar, sat down stiffly in a red leather chair, flipped through a copy of the bill, drummed his fingers on the table, smiled. Brisk and businesslike, the flyer identified himself as technical adviser to Transcontinental & Western Air and Pan American Airways, said he received a combined salary of $16,000 per year...
...official family of those traitorous elements . . . who have misadvised, or advised without giving full facts, and have caused him to act contrary to American justice and judgment. . . .''* Interposed Chairman McKellar: "Mr. Rickenbacker, I'll have to ask you not to attack the President or make a political speech." As Capt. Rickenbacker strode out, Senator Barbour, a New Jersey Republican, clapped heartily...
...wishes were set forth in a letter to Chairman McKellar of the Senate Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. Excerpts...
Senator Kenneth Douglas McKellar of Tennessee D.C.L...
...behest of Tennessee's Senator McKellar, himself on the public payroll for 22 years, the Civil Service Commission last week published a 1,500-page survey of jobs outside the merit system which will fall to "deserving" Democrats after March 4. The jobs ranged from Secretary of State to trackwalker on the Government's Alaska Railroad. Copies of the report, dispatched at once to President-elect Roosevelt and Democratic Chairman Farley, his patronage boss, listed some 65,000 political positions (exclusive of 15.600 appointive postmasterships)-one for every 350 men & women who voted the party ticket last November...