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Nevada. Republican George W. Malone does much of his campaign touring by airplane, drops in on wool ranchers. The ranchers like him and they hate the OPA. But Representative Berkeley Lloyd Bunker rides Senator Pat McCarran's Democratic machine and is strong in the cities. Dopesters' odds: 8-to-5 on Berkeley Bunker...
Congress was finally forced to give in to the silver-loving Congressmen, led by Nevada's Pat McCarran. They had been able to hold up the Treasury-Post Office appropriations bill, threatening the pay of 552,000 federal employes. Now the Treasury can again sell silver from its vast hoard...
...high hopes to put this deal over ran into a snag. A subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee reported favorably on the bloc's plan. But the House balked, indicated that it would discuss 90-cent but not $1.29 silver. Miffed, Nevada's Senator Pat McCarran, bloc leader, claimed he would settle for no less...
...Sometime followers of the Republocrat line: Senators Josiah Bailey (North Carolina), Harry F. Byrd (Virginia), Peter G. Gerry (Rhode Island), Pat McCarran (Nevada), W. Lee O'Daniel (Texas), David I. Walsh (Massachusetts) ; Representatives Fritz Lanham (Texas), Carter Manasco (Alabama), John Rankin (Mississippi), Howard Smith (Virginia), Hatton W. Sumners (Texas), Carl Vinson (Georgia...
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