Word: mccarrans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What is there in the mental make-up or background of a man with a fine Irish name like Patrick McCarran which compels him to oppose immigration measures like the Watkins bill so resolutely [TIME, July...
...this country were run on the sole principles which motivate Pat McCarran and Joe McCarthy, no self-respecting "furriner" would want...
...American citizen and taxpayer, 1 am unalterably opposed to any scheme that circumvents the McCarran-Walter bill for the economic convenience of 240,000 Europeans of unknown integrity...
...floor of the Senate one afternoon last week, Nevada's Pat McCarran made a sign to Missouri's Tom Hennings, and the two headed for the Democratic cloakroom...
...Republican Senator Arthur Watkins, sponsor of the Administration bill to admit 240,000 refugees from NATO and Iron Curtain countries, asked the President to lend a hand in the hard-fought battle to get the bill reported out against the stubborn opposition of Nevada's Pat McCarran and Idaho's Herman Welker. Ike invited Watkins and McCarran to the White House, flatly turned down McCarran's compromise proposal to admit 124,000 refugees. Bolstered, Watkins went back to Capitol Hill and got a Judiciary Committee majority (not including McCarran) to agree to hold an evening session "until...