Word: mccarranism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Associate professor Robert McCloskey's article on "The McCarran Act and the doctrine of Arbitrary Power" finds the author fighting for civil liberties in a thoroughly rational and often brilliant manner, against the doctrine that the Supreme Court should restrain itself from striking down some of the overly-broad anti-Communist measures in the McCarran Act. It is the same kind of battle fought by men like Justice Sutherland on behalf of another kind of liberty twenty years ago. The same principles are there: that individual liberty needs Court protection from legislative whim; that "a state does not possess...
Addressing the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, Senator Patrick A. McCarran said that the committee and the American people had faced in Lattimore a man "flagrantly defiant, out-spokenly discourteous, and persistent in efforts to confuse the facts...
...more important than financial security, the Window Shop offers the immigrant a welcome and a home. While the McCarran Act has minimized this function recently, the few newcomers receive the same companionship and help that characterized the war years. Representing eight nationalities, understanding and mutual problems have made the Window Shop not just a vocation, but a new life...
Fairbank first applied for a military permit and a passport in April 1951. After being mentioned in a McCarran Committee hearing, Fairbank was refused a military permit, and his passport application lapsed...
...then asked for hearings by both the Army and the McCarran Committee. He testified before the former in March 1952, and before the latter in April 1952. In May of that year, after reviewing the records of both hearings, the State Department issued him a passport...