Word: mccarranism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...broad investigation of alleged subversive influences in American colleges, including Harvard, appeared imminent last night, after Senator Pat McCarran (D-Nev) announced that the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee believed "nests of Communists exist not only in secondary schools but also in many colleges...
...June 25, 1950, advised Secretary General Trygve Lie to advocate U.N. intervention). He was upset over Lie's resignation last week. But what depressed Feller most were the problems and pressures that had been laid on the U.N. in recent months by a Federal grand jury and the McCarran Senate subcommittee, in their investigation of subversive Americans on the U.N. Secretariat. Feller, under no suspicion himself, was the U.N.'s legal adviser on the subject. The hearings uncovered 17 among the 2,000 Americans on the U.N. staff who refused to say whether or not they have engaged...
...angrily charged that Abe Feller's suicide had been brought on by the extra strain of defending Americans at U.N. against "indiscriminate smears and exaggerated charges." Senators McCarran, Willis Smith of North Carolina and James Eastland of Mississippi just as angrily called Lie's accusation "irresponsible," and promised to continue the inquiry...
...boasted to friends of her switch, but never notified the U.N. Not until the McCarran committee subpoenaed her did U.N. officials investigate the matter-and then they hastily suspended her on the technicality that she had fraudulently accepted reimbursements for U.S. taxes while contending that she was a Russian citizen...
...Soviet Union can make citizens by handing out passports promiscuously in the U.S.," growled Pat McCarran, "then the Congress will have to do something about it." But in Washington, State Department officials explained that Olga is still a U.S. citizen whether she likes it or not. To become a Russian, she would first have to leave the U.S. So far as the State Department is concerned, she can leave any time she pleases...