Word: mccarranism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Technicalities in the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act are preventing a former University teaching fellow, Claudio Guillen, Ph.D. '53, from returning to the United States...
According to the McCarran law, he must be the subject of a private act in Congress in order to return. The authorities at Princeton, where he was a member of the Modern Language Department, are trying to get Senator Smith of New Jersey to introduce such a bill...
...death of Nevada's splenetic old Senator Pat McCarran (TIME, Oct. 11) gave the G.O.P. hopes of an election-year windfall: a sure Senate seat. Republican Governor Charles Russell appointed Reno Attorney Ernest Brown to replace Democrat McCarran, clearly intended that Brown should finish the last two years of Pat's term. The Democrats, naturally, wanted an election this year...
...Supreme Court (one Democrat, two Republicans) unanimously decided the legal tangle for the Democrats, ordered the balance of the term (January 1955 to January 1957) filled at next month's election. Brown will have to run against former State Attorney General Alan Bible, a friend and protege of McCarran who was whipped in the 1952 senatorial primary by Political Amateur Tom Mechling. Mechling, in turn, was beaten by G.O.P. Senator George ("Molly") Malone, who in Nevada's strange and shifting political alliances had the backing of Democrat McCarran. The probability this year is that, with the Democrats united...
Died. Patrick Anthony McCarran, 78,Nevada's longtime (since 1933) Democratic Senator and state political boss; of a heart ailment; in Hawthorne, Nev. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...