Word: mccarranism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Mary L. McCarran, 59, daughter of the late U.S. Senator Pat Mc Carran, who spent 32 years as Sister Mary Mercy, a Holy Names nun, often driven to despair as her politically influential father constantly meddled in her cloistered life-winning her trips to Europe, paying for her to come to Washington's Catholic University for a Ph.D. and helping her stretch her poverty vows by sending his limousine around to pick her up at the Library of Congress-until his death in 1954, after which she left the order to care for her mother and ailing sister...
Mark DeWolfe Rowe '28, professor of Law, Howard Zinn, and Lewis M. Johnson will speak on "The McCarran Act and the DuBols Clubs" tonight at 8 p.m. in Lowell Lecture Hall...
...recent refusal of the DuBois Club to register as a communist-front organization has brought to public attention once again the unnecessary and unjust presence of the Subversive Activities Control Act. Passed in 1950 over President Truman's veto as the first section of the McCarran Act, the law helped spawn the McCarthy era. After that first blazing notoriety, it has proceeded through its numerous litigations in relative quiet; but the law is far from dead...
Described by the Attorney General as a "registration" law, the McCarran Act has far wider ramifications. Organizations which are labeled "communist-action" or "communist-front" groups are required to register with the Attorney General with lists of their officers and activities. Since no organization would do this willingly, ethe Attorney General has the power to request the Subversive Activities Control Board to determine the status of an organization...
...Subversive Activities Control Act, serves only to confuse and excite. Mark DeWolfe Howe '28, professor of Law, an executive committee member of the National Commission for the Repeal of the McCarran Act, calls the law "a terrible old act which has done nothing but harm." Even though the clause for individual registration has been thrown out by the Supreme Court, the law is still powerful enough to cause unwarranted injury. For this reason the McCarran Act must finally be repealed...