Word: backed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...session long, McCarran had bottled up in his Judiciary Committee the liberalized D.P. bill which the Administration was determined to push through before adjournment. Under the pretense of looking into subversive aliens in the U.S., McCarran had run a one-man filibuster, playing back the undocumented allegations of such old Un-American Activities Committee favorites as Spy Queen Elizabeth Bentley, baying off onto the subject of spies in the U.N. secretariat. McCarran was in a hurry to admit only one set of immigrants: 250 sheepherders to solve a labor shortage in his own state of Nevada...
...thrift. For his birthday, congratulatory messages from Congress, U.S. boys' clubs and European foreign offices poured in to his old home at Palo Alto, Calif., where he was to spend the day. His two sons, five (of his six) grandchildren and 10,000 friends joined to welcome him back to Stanford University, where he had graduated with the university's first full-fledged class...
...Quirino was not dismayed; "I may be going back emptyhanded, but I'm not going back empty-hearted." Besides, all the headlines back home on his U.S. welcome might help him through his tough fight for re-election next November...
...wife, Sentoria, heard about it and came rushing down to take him home. But she couldn't keep him there-Jim strolled back to the poolroom for a while, then sauntered over to the Busy Bee for a cup of coffee. That was when the cops came. They hauled Jim to Waukegan jail and started talking. "All right, you black son-ofabitch, tell the truth," demanded one. "We know you done...
...Back home in Waukegan, Sentoria Montgomery did more than hope. She worked part-time as a cook, spent about $7,000 of her own and her brother's money trying to get her husband out of prison. For 24 years she found only frustration; but two years ago she found Luis Kutner, a flashy, wealthy Chicago lawyer...