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...proposal to make joint returns mandatory for husbands & wives who live together (TIME, July 21). But a band of 15 Senators, mostly Westerners from States which have a community-property law (permitting family income to be divided equally between husband & wife for income-tax purposes), chose grey-maned Pat McCarran of Nevada to lead the fight...
Nevertheless, Nevada's Pat McCarran, author of the old CAA act, trumpeted on the floor of the Senate: "This legalized murder should stop." He sat tousle-headed and glaring while bumbling Alben Barkley tried to defend Franklin Roosevelt's reorganization of CAA which abolished the crack, independent Air Safety Board. A Senate subcommittee will investigate the Atlanta crash. And when Pat McCarran's bill to set aside Franklin Roosevelt's reorganization comes to hearing, there will be plenty of fireworks...
...week ended on a gory note struck by marcel-haired Pat McCarran of Nevada, known to the ungrateful press as "Old Bleeding Heart" for his practice of making important speeches as if each were his last on earth. Said McCarran...
...McCarran, Democrat of Nevada, described the tragedy as "legalized murder" and demanded enactment of his bill to re-establish the CAA and the Air Safety Board as independent agencies. The Safety Board was abolished and the CAA became a commerce department unit under a presidential reorganization order which became effective last July...
...Louis crash. Pat McCarran stood up in the Senate and announced the news. "I bring this matter to the attention of the Senate." said he, "in order that they may know that we were right in the first instance when we passed the act creating an independent agency. . . . When the Safety Board was abolished, when the CAA . . . was sent back into the Department of Commerce, chaos and confusion resulted...