Word: mccarranism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...know why the State Department should fall in with the red-hunters but we suspect it was pushed. This is an election year, and although President Truman has attacked the McCarran-McCarthy sort of statesmanship constantly, he is too clever a politician to permit the State Department to risk giving the Republicans more ammunition for their campaign...
Dean Francis R. B. Godolphin of Princeton and other faculty members made calls to Ellis Island in his behalf as soon as Cohen's predicament was learned. A New York legal firm was called in, but it appeared little could be done under the laws of the McCarran Act. Then, on the 11th day, Cohen was released without explanation...
...return and held for a hearing to determine if he is readmissible. The Justice Department refused to say on what grounds it would question Chaplin's right to re-enter the country (said one official: "That might prejudice our case"). But the press speculated on some reasons: the McCarran Act bars aliens from entering the U.S. on grounds of morals, or for membership or affiliation with Communist organizations. Chaplin has been cited as a sponsor for some Communist-front groups, and the noisy Chaplin-Joan Berry paternity suit, decided against the comedian (TIME, April 30,1945), might leave...
...list of speakers for the fall is not definite yet, Gwirtzman said. The H.L.U. also will conduct one major national project, he stated. Two years ago, the group raised $6800 in support of three Senators who voted to uphold the President's veto of the McCarran Act. This year's project has not been selected...
...McCarran angrily refused to comment. McCarran, 76, was expected to swing his Democratic machine behind the Republican incumbent, Senator George ("Molly") Malone...