Word: mccarranism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hoover Commission recommendations for budget-practice reform, failed to give federal aid to economically depressed areas, failed to revise lobby and campaign-spending laws. Time after time, the 85th Congress moved only halfheartedly when it moved at all. Example: it finally got around to correcting certain inequities in the McCarran-Walter immigration law, but its changes fell far short of those urged by the Administration and left some 25,000 freedom-fighting Hungarian refugees to the U.S. in a sort of legal limbo as "parolees...
Last week the Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by Mississippi's Democrat James Oliver Eastland. and the House Judiciary Committee, starring Pennsylvania's Democrat Francis E. ("Tad") Walter, co-author of the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act. handed the President and the U.S. their answer. Its net: the U.S.'s prestige and the U.S.'s good faith could go hang...
...considered a bellwether of the far right, but, while many of his views may be faulted as narrow, or behind the political and social times, he has never been identified with the fanatic right. Thus, unlike some of the Neanderthals he admires, e.g., Nevada's late Senator Pat McCarran, Wisconsin's late Senator Joe McCarthy, Lawrence is a realist in world affairs; he has vigorously supported the League of Nations, the U.N., NATO, the Marshall Plan, long-term foreign...
...hearing. Had he retired from his private business? Yes. Was his name gone from the door of his law office? Yes. yes. What had he done with his holdings? He had converted them into Government bonds. And at that point Nevada's Democratic Senator, the late Pat McCarran, leaned over with a pol-to-pol whisper: "Brownell, you're in a helluva shape if we don't confirm...
...Freedom Fighters, and Congressmen, then on vacation, generally applauded his act. Since then, the necessary legislation has been bottled up in the Senate Judiciary Committee by Chairman James O. Eastland and in the House Immigration Subcommittee by Chairman Francis E. Walter, who is averse to any change in the McCarran-Walter Act, which he coauthored. Also bottled up by congressional-committee corks are the Eisenhower Administration's broader, longer-range proposals for revision of U.S. immigration laws to the extent that the annual number of immigrants would be more than doubled (from a currently authorized 155,000 to about...