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...started when Harry Truman picked Richardson to head the Subversive Activities Control Board. That aroused the Senate's one-man roadblock, Nevada's testy Pat McCarran, chairman of the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee. McCarran would not even permit a hearing on whether Congress should confirm Richardson and the four other board appointees, because McCarran wanted to handle loyalty himself. Last week Richardson quit, giving as his reason a critical surgical operation ordered by his doctors. Then...
Exit. "The natural thing for [McCarran's] committee to do if it doubted the board [SACB] was to hold a meeting to find out if we were s.o.b.s. But no. There was no hearing. The damned representative of Franco could get a hearing and sit in the committee councils, but decent Americans couldn't . . . It makes me damned mad to have the papers announce that damned scaly representative of a scaly country can have a conference with the Judiciary Committee when five men who are just as good can't have a hearing...
...debate team will meet Wellesley at 8 p.m. tonight in Leverett Junior Common Room. The subject is, Resolved: That the McCarran Act is Necessary in Useful Legislation. John G. Morey '52 and Edward H. Fleishman '53 will debate for Harvard...
...McCarran Act, passed last year by Congress, does not outlaw any allegedly subversive groups, but places certain restrictions on them...
This list was compiled to screen people for government jobs, remarked Mather, and was being used by "self-appointed censors" for other purposes. The McCarran Act, he said, provides for judicial hearings on charges of being "subversive," and so far, the Attorney General has certified only one organization in this manner--the Communist Party...