Word: mccarranism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...McCarran Act: A Test...
Support or opposition to the McCarran Anti-Communist Law has often been used as a measure of anti-Communist feeling. The few outspoken enemies of the law who are up for office--Helen Gahagen Douglas of California, John Carroll of Colorado, Jacob Javitts of New York, and Herbert Lehman of New York--claim that the McCarran Act has so many weaknesses that it will do the Communists more good than harm. Backers of the Act assert that to oppose it implies weak tolerance of the Communists if not outright sympathy with them...
Since the McCarran Act was passed, it has been dissected and denounced by liberal and conservative publications all over the country. Even the Chicago Tribune wasn't sure it approved. It is the law which nobody wants, yet it passed through the Senate and over a presidential veto by a vote of 77 to 7, one of the largest margins by which a measure has been approved in the Senate, other than a declaration...
...passed so easily because the senators thought it would be political suicide to vote against anti-Communist legislation. So strong was this feeling that Hubert Humphrey of Indiana voted for the McCarran bill 24 hours after he said on the Senate floor that "the day S. 4037 passes will prove to be one of the darkest pages in American History...
...This act," the resolution continues, "threatens the independent integrity of the American judiciary by congressional findings of a fact traditionally determined by courts." It also asserts that the McCarran Act falls to set up adequate procedural safeguards...