Word: mccarranism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard is covered by the Post from Washington, too, by special correspondent John G. Kelso. Kelso's writing, sharp and fast-moving, makes easy reading. His favorite Washington lead is "Angry Senators today demanded . . . ," although his stock of Senators is usually limited to McCarran, McClellan, Ferguson, Dirksen and McCarthy...
While shooting scenes in Reno for Johnny Dark, a sports-car story, a Hollywood movie crew hired a local amateur-Nevada's leonine Senator Pat McCarran -to play the role of road-race starter. Although miscast in the silent role, McCarran whipped the green flag down with such artistry that only one retake was necessary. The Senator announced that his $10 pay would go to charity...
...There McCarran asked Hennings to act as an emissary to Utah's Republican Arthur Watkins, who was managing the Administration bill to admit refugees from NATO and Iron Curtain countries outside the rigid quotas of the 1952 McCarran Act.* The President, the State Department, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Psychological Strategy Board had advocated the measure as an effective tool of U.S. foreign policy. McCarran, backed by several Southern Democrats and Midwestern Republicans, had fought the bill hard. Giving ground slowly, he had offered to compromise at 120,000 refugees, then 124,000, then 185,000, then...
Hennings found Watkins on the Senate floor, gave him McCarran's message. Watkins thought awhile. The Senate Judiciary Committee had reported out a bill to admit 220,000, and it had a good chance of passage. On the other hand, crafty Pat McCarran could still do a lot of road-blocking if he chose, and the Senate was already in a squeeze to get through before the scheduled end-of-the-month adjournment. To show that they planned to stir up a big storm, McCarran and his two chief Republican allies, Indiana's Jenner and Idaho...
...Watkins decided to compromise. He told Hennings he would accept 200,000- plus special quotas for 4,000 orphans and 5,000 Europeans who entered the U.S. legally as visitors, and were then stranded when their native countries fell to the Communists. Hennings went back and reported to McCarran. Pressed by Minority Leader Lyndon Johnson, who wanted to avoid a messy floor fight that might hurt some big-city Democratic candidates in 1954, McCarran agreed to accept Watkins' 209,000 offer. That assured the bill's passage in the Senate...