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Hope Revived. At week's end a ray of hope appeared again. Nevada's Pat McCarran, chairman of the Senate's liquor investigation, came out foursquare for a liquor holiday as the best way to stop hijacking (see p. 82). His committee colleague, Homer Ferguson of Michigan, concurred. But to U.S. tipplers, who have heard that kind of talk before, the holiday seemed just another mirage...
Then Nevada's silver-haired, rancorous Pat McCarran, spokesman for the silver bloc, opened a filibuster against an Administration bill to permit the sale of Government-owned silver for commercial use at less than the pegged price. One day Pat McCarran read drowsily for four hours from ancient RFC hearings. His voice began to crack; while the opposition was napping, Pat McCarran gained unanimous consent for a clerk to continue the reading. The clerk droned on, filling up 15 pages of the Congressional Record, at $55 a page...
There apparently were enough votes to pass the silver bill (which bore the endorsement of the Army, Treasury and WPB), so Pat McCarran stayed on his feet. If he ever sat down, Administration leaders hoped to call up a bill extending RFC's borrowing authority by $5 billion (to finance war-plant expansions). But squarely blocking such hopes was the threat of Oklahoma's Elmer Thomas, a leader of the farm bloc, to start all over again the battle over farm-parity prices...
Occasion for Monsignor Ready's remarks was a Senate committee hearing on a bill introduced by Nevada's Pat McCarran to exempt about half the Washington religious property recently returned to the tax rolls. The McCarran bill would exempt only schools and churches, leaving other educational and religious institutions a target for taxes...
Veteran isolationist Senator Pat McCarran of Nevada, 65: "[In any peace treaty] we should take care of America first. Every other country is looking out for itself and we should look out for ourselves. Old German States should be separated and kept separated...