THE SENATE: Man Behind the Frown

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In any event, Senate Investigator John McCellan has plenty of work left before 1960. On the McClellan committee agenda are four separate investigations in the New York area: rackets in garbage collections, coin-operated machines and the building trades, and Teamsters' "paper locals" (i.e., locals which in some instances have no members, but are used to rig union elections and to extort money from businessmen). During the summer months the committee may take to the road, holding hearings wherever strong evidence of labor racketeering has shown up. It is in these hearings and the legislation which grows out of them that the man with the frown, and the tempered steel that lies behind it, will make his lasting mark.

*Devoted Democrat Isaac McClellan named later sons by his second marriage for Democrats William Jennings Bryan, Woodrow Wilson and Arkansas' Senator Joseph T. Robinson.

†No kin.

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