Word: mccarranism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nevada: Alan Bible, 44, onetime Senate elevator operator and state attorney general, defeated Senator Ernest Brown, who was appointed last month to fill the late Pat McCarran's seat. Bible, McCarran's protégé and law partner, has promised to carry on the McCarran tradition by plugging for higher wool, lead and zinc tariffs...
...governor's power to replace Senators who die in office with their own temporary appointments seldom draws much attention because control of the Senate rarely depends on these choices. But of the nine Senators who died during the Eighty-Third Congress, two Democrats--Lester Hunt of Wyoming and Pat McCarran of Nevada--were replaced by members of the opposite party. The new Democratic governors in four states where Senators are especially feeble may prevent Senate reorganization during the next Congress...
Republicans lost Senate seats in both Nevada and Kentucky. In the former, Democrat Alan Bible, a protege of the late Senator Pat McCarran, defeated the Republican Senator Ernest Brown. And in Kentucky former Vice-President Alben Barkley unseated liberal Republican John Sherman Cooper...
Democrats have strong prospects for taking two seats presently held by Republicans. They are in Nevada and Wyoming. In the last decade, Nevada Republicans have won only with help from Democrat Pat McCarran, whose feuds within his own party sometimes caused him to support the G.O.P. By gubernatorial appointment, Republican Ernest S. Brown now tentatively holds the Senate place left vacant by McCarran's death. He will not get the necessary McCarranite votes; his opponent, Alan Bible, was one of the old man's most devoted followers...
...expected, the harshest words of the evening were reserved for Furcolo. "A vote for Foster Furcolo," said Schlesinger, "would be a vote for a young Pat McCarran in the U.S. Senate...