Word: mccarranism
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...citizenship, a landing card and a customs declaration. He had no passport. Following a brief interrogation by immigration officers he was admitted to the U.S. But the next April a Florida grand jury indicted him for entry into the U.S. without a valid passport, allegedly a violation of the McCarran Act of 1952. On August 8 of the same year Worthy was found guilty and sentenced to three months imprisonment and nine months probation...
Three weeks ago today three students were indicted for violations of the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act. If they are convicted, as seems likely, they could receive terms of up to fifteen years in Federal prison...
American travel to Cuba came under the arbitrary control of the State Department on January 19, 1961. The Department acted under a section of the McCarran-Walter Act which authorizes the executive branch to restrict travel in times of "national emergency" as well as during war. Such a state of national emergency was proclaimed in 1953 and is still legally in effect today...
Died. Francis Eugene ("Tad") Walter, 69, Democratic Representative from Pennsylvania for 16 consecutive terms and longtime chairman (during Democratic years) of the House Subcommittee on Immigration and the House Un-American Activities Committee, who unyieldingly resisted attempts to change his controversial 1952 McCarran-Walter Immigration Act and relentlessly investigated Communist infiltration in Hollywood and in teaching, yet for all his reputation as a conservative, voted so often for those "damn liberal" bills that the vote-watching Americans for Democratic Action gave him an 80% liberal rating; of leukemia; in Washington...
...assessed Advance as a clear and present danger. No attempt was made in Kennedy's petition to the Subversive Activities Control Board to show that Advance advocated forcible overthrow of the constituted government. Nor has the image of "a world-wide Communist organization" crucial to the passage of the McCarran Act in 1950) been re-examined in reference to the split in the Communist world. Only the extreme right stands to benefit from the continued identification of liberal and communist objectives...