Word: mccarran
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unavoidably Senator Pat McCarran of Nevada had to bring it up the next day. Author of an amendment to the Spend-Lend Bill, to restore prevailing wage-rates on WPA projects, he admitted his cause had been "greatly impaired." The Senate quickly slapped down his amendment...
...soon had allies of an opposite stripe -a band of eleven Senators led by Oklahoma's silver-haired Thomas and Nevada's roseate McCarran, who advanced an inflation plan calling for $2,000,000,000 of new paper currency to be backed by the Treasury's idle gold. Idaho's Borah and Nevada's Pittman joined them in demanding, further, that the price now paid for silver by the Treasury (64.64? per oz.) be raised much higher above the market price (40¾?). For four long days last week they tied up other legislation while...
When it came to questioning, the examiners were no match for their witness. Nevada's tawny old Pat McCarran was confounded by the Professor's Socratic questions. Asked by Senator Borah how the Civil Liberties Union stood on Communism, the Professor neatly replied, "So far as I know it has no attitude except to carry out its function of seeing that Communists get their Constitutional rights, along with Henry Ford, the Nazis and the Klan." Climax came when, pointing his finger at McCarran, Lawyer Frankfurter said slowly and succinctly...
Nevada's Senator McCarran, good Roman Catholic and father of two nuns,* declared that any attempt to lift the embargo "will be met by Senate opposition that will be remembered for a long time to come...
...Later McCarran asked to be recorded as voting...