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...long months, Nevada's crusty old Pat McCarran had" fought off the day with secret hearings, long junkets, parliamentary delays and diversionary bellowings. But one day last week he was close to a reckoning: only three hours remained before the long-delayed vote on a new Displaced Persons bill...
Then a very unsenatorial thing happened: the Senate chamber was still, and no one got up to speak. At his front-row desk, McCarran stared stonily at Vice President Alben Barkley in the chair. McCarran's strategy was to allow his opponents to use up all their allotted time, leaving him the last, unanswerable word. The leader of his opponents, West Virginia's chunky, Fair Dealing Harley Kilgore, as stubbornly clung to his allowance of 39 minutes to be used after McCarran. Barkley asked if McCarran wanted to use or to yield any of his time. No, said...
Another Senator suggested work on another bill; Kilgore objected. "The Senate of the United States should not be placed in this position," cried Arizona's Ernest McFarland. Snapped New Mexico's Dennis Chavez: "A pretty picture is being painted before the country." Finally, outwaited, McCarran heaved himself up, announced that he would spend ten minutes of his remaining...
...Amending Game. There are two to five million people illegally in the U.S. right now, he cried. D.P.s would add to unemployment, take housing away from veterans, jeopardize the economy (actually, veteran and labor organizations were behind the bill). Besides, said McCarran, there would be only 11,000 "real" displaced persons left by June; the rest were "criminals, the diseased and those who cannot possibly take care of themselves...
Patrick A. (Pat) McCarran, Democrat from Nevada, 73, pompous, vindictive and power-grabbing-a sort of McKellar with shoes on. Working hand in glove with McKellar, he tied the 81st Congress' appropriations machinery in knots, staged a one-man committee filibuster against a liberalized bill to admit D.P.s to the U.S., and almost succeeded -with McKellar-in mutilating the Marshall Plan last summer. To control or retaliate against Senators who stand up against him, the silver-haired spokesman of the silver bloc swings a big club: chairmanship of the Judiciary Committee, which passes on all claims against the Government...