Word: mccarranism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scrutiny is largely a waste of time. Steady pressure from Washington, including the McCarran Act, which requires U.S. Communist publications to be labeled as propaganda, deprives them of overt support from Moscow. Thus abandoned, the Worker, etc., seem to be drifting rudderless in Moscow's wake. Gus Hall, general secretary of the U.S. Communist Party and a regular Kremlin visitor, was usually good for a navigational fix-until the State Department yanked his passport...
...Flamingo Hotel, later bought 1% of the Desert Inn. In 1950 Greenspun pleaded guilty to running arms to Israel, was fined $10,000, finally had his civil rights restored last year by President Kennedy. He long used the Sun in a vendetta against the late Senators Pat McCarran and Joseph McCarthy, once wrote a column in which he called McCarthy a "disreputable pervert." In taking on Sawyer, Greenspun would have some embarrassing Sun paragraphs to live down. Wrote he about the Governor in 1959: "He has exceeded our most extravagant hopes and predictions. Grant Sawyer is a man among...
Kennedy applauded Vellucci for "fighting for the rights of the working man and all the citizens of Cambridge." "To further Al's work," Kennedy declared, "we must meet our responsibility to our fellow citizens by striving to see the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act eliminated...
...government should take a new look at the confusion of laws now on the books," he said, referring to the Smith and McCarran Acts, the Communist Control Act of 1954, and the Civil War conspiracy statutes. Howe noted that the Civil War laws alone would have been adequate for conviction in the Dennis case, which tested the constitutionality of the Smith...
Robert G. McCloskey, professor of Government and third member of the panel, also attacked the McCarran Act, calling it "unwise" and "bad public policy." He disagreed, however, with Davis' contention that internal security laws are violations of the Constitution...