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Nepotism also runs high in the Senate where blood relatives are listed as secretaries to Kentucky's Barkley and Logan, South Dakota's Bulow, Tennessee's McKellar, Minnesota's Schall, Delaware's Townsend, Florida's Trammell*, Iowa's Brookhart. Last week the case of Senator Brookhart was a large campaign issue in his State's Republican primary (June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Nepotism | 5/30/1932 | See Source »

...Voted (50-10-29) on motion of Tennessee's McKellar to recommit the $124,000,000 appropriation bill for the Departments of State, Justice, Commerce and Labor with instructions to cut its total 10% for economy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Work Done, Apr. 4, 1932 | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

HAROLD A. MCKELLAR...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 8, 1932 | 2/8/1932 | See Source »

...Adopted a resolution by Tennessee's McKellar to investigate air mail and ocean mail contracts. C. Adopted a resolution by Maryland's Tydings authorizing the Comptroller General to reopen and adjust the claim of the city of Baltimore to $171,000 which the city raised and spent for fortifications during the Civil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Work Done, Jan. 25, 1932 | 1/25/1932 | See Source »

...work on. In ten days 6.383 bills were introduced in the House. 2,311 in the Senate, the great majority on private matters for aggrieved constituents. Michigan's Senator Couzens wanted a railroad probe while Senators Capper of Kansas and Hastings of Delaware wanted short selling scrutinized. Senator McKellar of Tennessee proposed making War Hero Alvin C. York a captain. Senator Brookhart of Iowa wanted to knock out the gold standard. To make the purchaser of liquor equally guilty with the seller was the legislative ambition of Senator Sheppard of Texas. Senator Hull of Tennessee wanted to repeal tariff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Work of the Week | 12/28/1931 | See Source »

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