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During a routinely optimistic election forecast last week, Republican Chairman Guy Gabrielson observed that in Nevada the party had high hopes of dethroning lordly, white-haired old (74) Senator Pat McCarran. A reporter asked why, and Gabrielson explained: "It's his New Deal voting record...
...reporters laughed, and Gabrielson, after thinking over his words, joined in. For Democrat McCarran, during his 18 years in the Senate, had been about as fond of New and Fair Deal medicines as Carrie Nation was of bourbon. Before the 1938 primaries, when F.D.R. himself went inland to have his say on candidates, he visited Nevada, but haughtily ignored McCarran's candidacy for renomination; McCarran had angrily fought too many New Deal measures. Shaggy Pat won anyway, went back to the Senate to cry out against aid to embattled France and Britain ("One American...
Although its work for the election of anti-McCarran Bill Congressmen has taken most of its time previously, the Liberal Union is planning to concentrate right at home these last days. A new pamphlet, containing a full history of gerrymandering in this state complete with maps, is now being published, spokesmen announced last night...
Over $6,000 had arrived at Liberal Union headquarters up to last night in response to the anti-McCarran Bill appeal, members reported. Donations have already been made to Senator Herbert H. Lehman in New York. Other funds are on their way to Representative John A. Carroll of Colorado, and Helen Gahagan Douglas of California...
...Liberal Union is attempting now to start an "Independent Vigilanto Committee" composed of teachers and students at the Law School. These people would write to Congress about the McCarran Bill and civil liberties legislation, the club said...