Word: mccarranism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...explained that the club is being formed to protest Attorney General Nicholas DeB. Katzenbach's demand that the national DuBois Club register as a Communist-front organization. "The DuBois Club must not be the first of a string of dissent organizations to dissolve simply at the mention of the McCarran Act" Barus said...
...club gains University recognition, it plans a joint conference with S.D.S. and local civil liberties groups to discuss the McCarran Act, the 1950 law which requires Communist-front organizations to register with the Subversiva Activities Control Board...
...campus. If Harvard is going to maintain its very expensive House system, it might as well provide the services that make a House worth living in: comfortable rooms, and, not merely married tutors' suites but also rooms for visiting firemen, Kennedy Institute fellows, and so on. Bob J. K. McCarran...
...have been for a number of years, I am now, and I propose to remain a member of the Communist Party of the United States," she had written a few days before in a letter to the campus newspaper. Under the $10,000-a-day provision of the 1950 McCarran Act, she said, this admission made her liable to a "fine of $12,150,000 and 5,075 years in prison" for failing to register as a Communist-until the court ruled otherwise...
...Volunteers. Only two Communists were involved in the latest ruling, but its practical effect is to end litigation against 41 other party members who have refused to register. In 15 years, the five-member board established by the McCarran Act has failed to get a single Communist or crypto-Communist organization or individual registered. As Harry Truman said of the bill, which passed over his veto: "The idea of requiring Communist organizations to divulge information about themselves is a simple and attractive one. But it is about as practical as requiring thieves to register with the sheriff...