Word: mccarranism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
...unanimous decision, the court prohibited the Government from compelling individual party members to register with the Government as stipulated by the Subversive Activities Control (McCarran) Act of 1950. "In an area permeated with criminal statutes," maintained Justice William J. Brennan Jr.'s opinion, by the 1950 law the party member would be forced to incriminate himself, in violation of his rights under the Fifth Amendment...
...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...
...Review), and profit thus by the experience of our comrades abroad. There is no "chain of command" in the world Communist movement. All parties are equal in these conferences and meetings in so far as they can contribute their experience. It is of interest here to note that the McCarran Act establishes an "international conspiracy" on the basis of parallel positions. Of the parallel positions admitted before the Supreme Court in the trial of our Party, nearly half were taken by our Party before the Soviet communist Party announced them...