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What is there in the mental make-up or background of a man with a fine Irish name like Patrick McCarran which compels him to oppose immigration measures like the Watkins bill so resolutely [TIME, July...
...this country were run on the sole principles which motivate Pat McCarran and Joe McCarthy, no self-respecting "furriner" would want...
...American citizen and taxpayer, 1 am unalterably opposed to any scheme that circumvents the McCarran-Walter bill for the economic convenience of 240,000 Europeans of unknown integrity...
...floor of the Senate one afternoon last week, Nevada's Pat McCarran made a sign to Missouri's Tom Hennings, and the two headed for the Democratic cloakroom...
...There McCarran asked Hennings to act as an emissary to Utah's Republican Arthur Watkins, who was managing the Administration bill to admit refugees from NATO and Iron Curtain countries outside the rigid quotas of the 1952 McCarran Act.* The President, the State Department, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Psychological Strategy Board had advocated the measure as an effective tool of U.S. foreign policy. McCarran, backed by several Southern Democrats and Midwestern Republicans, had fought the bill hard. Giving ground slowly, he had offered to compromise at 120,000 refugees, then 124,000, then 185,000, then...