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...McCarran angrily refused to comment. McCarran, 76, was expected to swing his Democratic machine behind the Republican incumbent, Senator George ("Molly") Malone...
...them. Last week, at trip's end, Tom Mechling won Nevada's Democratic nomination for Senator in one of the year's most startling political upsets. His defeated opponent: popular, former State Attorney General Alan Bible, 42, the hand-picked candidate of powerful Senator Pat McCarran...
...reporter with an unquenchable idealism. Said a fellow Kiplinger staffer: "Tom's the slow burn type. But when he gets mad. he'll pop." Tom Mechling's slow burn began with the stories Margaret carried home evenings from her patronage job as a stenographer on Pat McCarran's Immigration subcommittee. Angered by the highhanded tactics of Nevada's silver-thatched Senator, Tom began to question his friends: Do you think people vote for politicians (i.e., hacks) just because they have no choice? Later, his friends realized that the question had a purpose: Mechling was making...
With savings of $7,600 for campaign expenses, Tom went back to Nevada last February and began to lash out at McCarran's "machine rule" of the state. At street-corner meetings he came out for FEPC, federal power and the Administration's foreign policy; he denounced Bible as a member of McCarran's machine. Bible ran as a "states' rights Democrat" and native son, called Mechling a "brash young upstart." Irked by Tom's hard-hitting campaign, Pat McCarran himself went on the air, issued an eight-page statement urging Bible's election...
Spain, a half-ally, half-wooed last year by Senator Pat McCarran's "special" $100 million appropriation (which President Truman has refused to deliver), was playing hard to get over the naval and air bases the U.S. wants. Franco's price: $125 million in MSA funds and an ironclad guarantee that the U.S. will fly to Spain's defense in the event of war with Russia...