Word: mccarranism
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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...
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...
...Opposition to the McCarran Act and the Smith...
...individuals and groups who cannot command their political respect. The CRIMSON, in its inquiries into the present case, has found little proof that the members of Advance are intellectually or ideologically independent. And yet it is with full force that we condemn the technique of prosecution under the McCarran...
...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...