Word: mccarran
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Legislatively the storm is summed up in two bills now before Congress, one of which (Lee-McCarran Bill) would hand U. S. airlines over to the Interstate Commerce Commission while the other (Bland-Copeland Bill) would segregate over-ocean flying from domestic aviation and put it under the Maritime Commission, as Chairman Joseph Patrick Kennedy suggested in his famed report (TIME, Nov. 22). For Pan American, which escaped the visitation of the Black Committee in the airmail investigation, the ultimate decision is vital. Under the Lee-McCarran Bill, the I.C.C. would give preference in granting certificates for overseas air service...
...statement will go in the Record as sufficient proof that he is recorded against it. . . . All Senators can extend their remarks in the Record on the subject." A moment later the Senate recessed for the week end, and at 2:26 p.m., just 59 minutes after Senator McCarran had taken the floor, the job the Senate has been trying to do some how since last February was finally, force fully and completely done...
...shot back Senator McCarran, stopping his speech to pick up some papers from his desk and send them to the reading clerk...
...Court Bill has four main provisions. It enables the Attorney General to intervene in lower-court constitutional cases, provides for speeding such cases to the Supreme Court, permits the temporary reassignment of Federal district judges, limits lower-court injunctive power by requiring decisions from a three-judge tribunal. Senator McCarran had not one amendment to propose but four, each brief and each designed to make the intervention of the Attorney General mandatory. As the four were read the Vice President pounded his ivory gavel on his desk as though it had been on a tom-tom, shouting: "Without objection...
Divorced. Mrs. Sylvia Patricia McCarran Breckenridge, 18, daughter of Nevada Senator Pat McCarran; from John D. Breckenridge, 22, onetime sergeant of Washington, D. C. police; in Virginia City, Nev. They eloped and were married...