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...feel that his brilliant chairmanship of the Senate Crime Investigating Committee has overshadowed his domestic liberalism, his staunch support of civil liberties, and his ardent internationalism," their statement read. It further stressed the fact that Kefauver was one of the five Senators who voted against the McCarran Act and that he was past-president of the American Academy of Political and Social Scientists...
Ralph Barton Perry '29, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, and Kirtley Mather, professor of Geology, were among the signers of an open letter sent by the National Committee to Repeal the McCarran Act to President Truman Monday...
...letter stated that Senator James O. Eastland's bill calling for the immediate declaration of a state of emergency in order that the McCarran Act detention camp provisions can go into effect at once makes the need for action imperative...
...McCarran Committee (Senate) will carry on the hunt for Communists, fellow travelers and subversive influences on U.S. policy. Its chairman, Nevada's Pat McCarran, has twelve projects in hand. Only one - the probe of the influential Institute of Pacific Relations (TIME, Sept. 3) - has yet been unfolded for the public eye; the eleven others are still under wraps in executive session...
...case, the investigation might never amount to much, because, like everything in 1952 Washington, it could be slowed down by the wheels within the wheels. Nevada's Senator Pat McCarran, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, might not want to investigate GAP at all. McCarran is a longtime friend of GAP Boss Harold Baynton; in fact, he sponsored Baynton...