Word: mccarranism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Leading the investigations were the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, headed until November by Senator Pat McCarran (D-Nev.) and by Sen. William E. Jenner (R-Ind.) afterwards; and the House Un-American Activities Committee, headed by Rep. Harold Velde (R-Ill.). Both group had full subpoena power, both had sent large research staffs in the field for months before they called witnesses. Both confronted witness with large stores of information on Communist and front activity during the last fifteen years. In almost every state in the union, state legislative committees had started or were preparing similar investigations...
Then Shillinglaw's clearance got bogged down in federal security procedure. The FBI called Sponsor Dirksen's attention to Shillinglaw's membership in the Institute of Pacific Relations, which the Senate Internal Security (McCarran) Subcommittee had found to have been infiltrated by Communist sympathizers. Shillinglaw said that he had satisfied himself that the I.P.R. had purged itself of subversive elements. But Dirksen, fearful of objections in the Senate, especially by McCarran and Joe McCarthy, asked Shillinglaw to withdraw anyway. Replied Shillinglaw: No-"It's a matter of honor...
...week's end the Immigration authori ties swung into action. They picked up Belfrage, charged that he was an alien engaged in Communist activity in the U.S., and took him to Ellis Island to await deportation under the McCarran...
Section Three of the McCarran Law defines "Communist front" organizations so loosely as to include any group that advocates an idea disapproved of by the government. It is difficult to think of any proposal for social reform that has not received the Red label. The McCarran Law spells out the dangerous equation: Change=Communism=Russia. The same equation is apparent in the questions and behavior of Senator Jenner, Congressman Velde, and Senator McCarthy, who joined with Senator McCarran to make his anti-democratic and un-American act into...
...Passed a bill to apply the Constitution's "full faith and credit" clause to divorces, so that decrees granted by one state will be recognized by all states. The bill's sponsor: the Senator from the divorce-mill state, Pat McCarran of Nevada. ¶ Repealed an old but forgotten 1890 law permitting servicemen to buy their way out of the Army...