Word: mccarranism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...McCarran's once-booming voice came in whistles and wheezes as he pleaded for unity in the Nevada Democratic Party he himself had split and splintered. He finished his speech, stepped down from the stage of the City Hall auditorium in Hawthorne (pop. 1,861), and threaded his way through the miners, gamblers, shopkeepers and housewives who were his faithful followers. As he stopped for a moment to listen to a constituent's problem, he was still a picture-book Senator: generous girth, flashing blue eyes, and silver hair curling down around his collar. Then his knees buckled...
...father was Patrick McCarran, who left Ireland as a stowaway at 16, joined the First U.S. Dragoons, went to Nevada to fight Chief Winnemucca's Paiutes, and stayed on as a homestead rancher. His mother was Margaret Shea of County Cork, who came to Nevada as a domestic servant. From his parents young Patrick Anthony inherited a fighting spirit and a love of politics. In addition, he cultivated a trait not generally associated with the Irish: patience...
After one unsuccessful try at the Senate, McCarran rode to Washington on the Roosevelt tide of 1932. In his early Senate days he generally voted with the New Deal, e.g., for the Wagner Act and the NRA (which he later denounced), but Franklin Delano Roosevelt of Hyde Park could not long remain the leader of Patrick Anthony McCarran of Reno. Their great split was over the 1937 attempt to pack the Supreme Court, but long before then there had been portents of things to come. Within a week after being sworn in, McCarran made a Senate speech against an Administration...
Patronage. McCarran was in a perfect position to benefit by this lesson; on reaching the Senate he had been assigned to two of its most powerful units, the Judiciary and Appropriations committees. Under the seniority system, he had only to wait for time to run its course. He buttered up the Appropriations Committee chairman, Tennessee's Kenneth McKellar, who named Pat chairman of the key subcommittee dealing with funds for the State, Justice and Commerce Departments, thereby giving McCarran a stranglehold which he never really relinquished...
Officers of the Harvard Liberal Union have written the national board of the Americans for Democratic Action asking help for Chinese students "forcibly detained in this country under a provision of the McCarran Act," HLU president Phillipe Villers '55 announced yesterday...