Word: mccarran
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...broad bosom of the Pacific Ocean enfolded Franklin Roosevelt last weekend. To its gusts he could throw the heavy cares of the Presidency, to its rollers the carking complications of politics. Behind for a while lay the names of Barkley, Thomas, Adams, McCarran, McAdoo. Ahead lay marlin, sailfish, tuna, albacore, and the wild wahoo. His secretaries put away a sheaf of delivered speeches. His fishing aides aboard the cruiser Houston unpacked a trunkful of rods, reels and tackle. Instead of shining paragraphs for the electorate, now there would be shining spoons, dancing feathers for big fish. While Harry Hopkins administered...
...Black inquiry came the first serious move to centralize regulation of aviation. Silvery Nevadan Pat McCarran wrote a Senate bill to place full control of the industry with the I.C.C. Year later, in the House, California's Clarence Lea offered a bill to create an independent Government bureau for aviation. Until the last Congress, neither bill had been able to make much headway. Both the Post Office Department and the Department of Commerce's Bureau of Air Commerce stood to lose firm political footholds if the centralization move succeeded. But this year the proposals were revived, promptly...
While everybody in the air transport business knew that the new act was far better for all concerned than anything previously devised for air industry control, they knew, too. in the words of Eastern Airlines' plain-talking War Ace Eddie Rickenbacker, that "the McCarran-Lea act will be only as good as the men who comprise the board...
...Airlines; and Alabama-born Lieut.-Colonel Sumpter Smith, War flier, aeronautical engineer, since 1936 director of the Division of Airways and Airports of the WPA. The third Safety Board member was not named. Among these appointments, peeled political eyes could discover no one recommended for appointment by dictator-fearing McCarran. But if Franklin Roosevelt gave the back of his hand to Rebel Pat McCarran, it was at the same time a helping hand to U. S. aviation...
First question put to the Chamber was whether to recommit the bill-i.e., kill it. As the roll call proceeded, every Senator except three (Florida's Pepper, Indiana's Van Nuys, Nevada's McCarran) was present on the floor. Then, while the gallery- so crowded that young Mrs. James Roosevelt had to sit on the stairs-held its breath, the votes were counted. Result was 48-10-43, against recommittal. Five minutes later, there followed the formality of voting on the bill itself. This time the count was 49-0-42 for passage, and the Senate...