Word: mccarran
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...drafted to participate in the Korean War in 1951, at the height of the "Red scare." Because he feared persecution for his involvement in leftist groups while at Harvard and afterward, he lied about his Communist activities when faced with the loyalty oath required of all draftees under the McCarran...
...fair to say that Las Vegas is in denial, which probably explains the local predilection for smarmy euphemism. From Wayne Newton on down, every man in Vegas calls every woman a lady. One of the local abortion clinics is called A Lady's Needs. Signs all over McCarran Airport declare it a nonsmoking building, yet just as noticeable as the banks of slot machines is the reek of old cigarettes. It strikes almost no one as ironic that the patron of the M.B. Dalitz Religious School is the late Moe Dalitz, the celebrated gangster...
...result, a series of racism-tinted national-origins laws passed during the 1920s established an annual immigration quota of 150,000 that favored established groups like the Germans and Irish. Some nationalities, notably the Japanese, were excluded entirely. The national-origins system was preserved in the 1952 McCarran-Walter Act, though that notorious law did establish tiny quotas -- 100 or so a year -- for such previously barred groups as Indians and Filipinos...