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Nevada's grizzled, barrel-shaped Senator Pat McCarran went on the warpath last week for the umptieth time in his ten-year career of hatcheting the New Deal. (As far back as 1934 the maverick Pat used to hunt with Huey Long on the President's trail.) This time Pat McCarran was after the bald scalp of birdlike Attorney General Francis Biddle...
Last February the hefty Nevadan armed himself for the next foray with a huge tomahawk: a Senate Resolution empowering him to investigate any of the 3,374 presidential executive orders issued since March 4, 1933. With this power tucked in his belt, Pat McCarran sat quietly in the wigwam of his Senate Judiciary Committee, biding his time...
...that Franklin Roosevelt, on the legal advice of Francis Biddle, seized Montgomery Ward's Chicago plant, Pat McCarran pulled on his war bonnet. He sent a committee agent to Chicago, subpoenaed WLB files, and jumped into the headlines with a promise of a fearless, "nonpolitical" investigation. For three weeks he and West Virginia's G.O.P. Senator Chapman Revercomb mulled over their evidence. Last week they reported...
...good measure, Senators McCarran and Revercomb also attacked the actions of WLB, NLRB, Frances Perkins' Conciliation Service, and even old Commerce Secretary Jesse Jones, who has been lying low for months. All, in the view of the two Senators, had exceeded their authority...
...Unswayed." Francis Biddle called the report "absurd." Then, after several hours' thought, he issued a statement attacking Pat McCarran's unwillingness to hear any witnesses...