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...Speakership, but not of his office suite. Mr. Sam, weary of swapping offices, told Joe to stay on in the Speaker's rooms. After 32 years in the Senate, Georgia's patriarchal Walter George, senior Democrat since the 1952 defeat of Tennessee's fiery-eyed Kenneth McKellar, will win the prestige of Mc-Kellar's old title, Senate President pro tempore...
...this lesson; on reaching the Senate he had been assigned to two of its most powerful units, the Judiciary and Appropriations committees. Under the seniority system, he had only to wait for time to run its course. He buttered up the Appropriations Committee chairman, Tennessee's Kenneth McKellar, who named Pat chairman of the key subcommittee dealing with funds for the State, Justice and Commerce Departments, thereby giving McCarran a stranglehold which he never really relinquished...
...Bridges let it be known that he wants to be chairman of the purse-holding Appropriations Committee even if he is majority leader. That means the committee will be far more efficient than it was in the last session under Tennessee's doddering, dawdling Kenneth McKellar. Bridges runs a busy, direct-action committee...
...nominations for Senator Tom Connally's seat. Florida's Spessard L. Holland, Virginia's Harry Byrd and Rhode Island's John O. Pastore are all but certain to be reelected. In Tennessee, Representative Albert Gore won his only battle when he beat veteran Senator Kenneth McKellar in last summer's primary...
After Cookeville, McKellar settled down to a hotel-room, handshaking campaign. He tried to be pleasant to the voters, a real effort for a man as crusty as McKellar. His friends tried to give Gore's issue a full turn. If the old man is defeated, they said, Tennessee will have two "junior" Senators and no influence in Washington. McKellar, who has ruthlessly used his power to fatten his friends and crush his enemies, talked of his appropriations committee as "the most powerful ... in the world," and pointed out that it took him 29 years to become its chairman...