Word: mccarranism
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When Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy filed an order requiring Advance, an "organization of progressive youth" to file as a Communist-front group pursuant to the McCarran Act of 1950, he cited as evidence a number of issues on which the Advance position ran parallel to that of the U.S. Communist Party. These included...
Designed by Architect Welton Becket (who has worked on the new airports expansion projects at Los Angeles and San Francisco), McCarran Field's 38,850 sq. ft. hexagonal waiting building consists of three identical sweeps of vaulted concrete like wings, arching from the ground to a 45-ft. peak, and illuminated by vast areas of tinted glass "to portray the beauty and grace of soaring flight and the simplicity and endlessness of space. From the moment the passenger enters the winglike ticketing building to the time he leaves the spacious, vaulted terminal with its feeling of motion, he will...
...Hebrew. Yiddish and English-are men who write in such specialized fields as theater, labor, TV and society. Socialism has softened into liberalism. The Forward looks with favor on John Kennedy, medicare and tax cuts, with disfavor on such traditional liberal targets as federal aid to parochial schools, the McCarran Act and racial segregation...
...scrutiny is largely a waste of time. Steady pressure from Washington, including the McCarran Act, which requires U.S. Communist publications to be labeled as propaganda, deprives them of overt support from Moscow. Thus abandoned, the Worker, etc., seem to be drifting rudderless in Moscow's wake. Gus Hall, general secretary of the U.S. Communist Party and a regular Kremlin visitor, was usually good for a navigational fix-until the State Department yanked his passport...
...Flamingo Hotel, later bought 1% of the Desert Inn. In 1950 Greenspun pleaded guilty to running arms to Israel, was fined $10,000, finally had his civil rights restored last year by President Kennedy. He long used the Sun in a vendetta against the late Senators Pat McCarran and Joseph McCarthy, once wrote a column in which he called McCarthy a "disreputable pervert." In taking on Sawyer, Greenspun would have some embarrassing Sun paragraphs to live down. Wrote he about the Governor in 1959: "He has exceeded our most extravagant hopes and predictions. Grant Sawyer is a man among...