Word: mccarranism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, who "would be chairman of the American Communist Party if the McCarran Act permitted it to have officers," held forth like a queen for almost two hours. She reminisced about her lifelong fight for a socialist America "in the plain simple language of the workers--no Madison Avenue terms; the bosses aren't the establishment...
...endlessly involved in social action, partly because of the Quaker influence that still has the campus telephone operator say "Thank thee." Almost conventionally liberal, Swarthmore sent an ambulance to Loyalist Spain in the 1930s, began deliberately recruiting Negro students in the early 1940s. Swarthmoreans analyze disarmament, criticize the McCarran Act, lead civil rights demonstrations, from Chester, Pa., to Cambridge, Md. Last fall 60 student pickets got arrested in Chester...
Schweig, a student at C.C.N.Y., explained that Advance was being attacked because it had "supported the Communist Party's position" by opposing nuclear testing and the McCarran. Act, and advocating negotiations on Berlin and nonintervention in Cubs. He said that he did not think "there is a single peace organization in this country which could not be attacked on the same grounds...
...speakers blasted the McCarran Act at a meeting sponsored by the Socialists Club last night...
...State Dean Rusk invoked the ban on January 19, 1961, stating: "In view of the conditions existing in Cuba . . . I find that the unrestricted travel by U.S. citizens to or in Cuba . . . would be inimical to the national interest." He claimed the power to do this under the McCarran Act, which says in part, "After such proclamation [of a national emergency by the President] . . . it shall be unlawful for any citizen to depart from or enter the U.S. without a valid passport." Worthy has appealed his case which will be heard again this year in a federal circuit court. Doubtlessly...