Word: mccarrans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...McCarran...
...agent. The State Department had even refused him a passport. But not until McCarthy spoke did the Truman Administration demand Coe's dismissal from his sensitive post. And not until Coe himself refused to say whether he was a Communist spy, in testimony before the McCarran committee, did the IMF finally force him to resign (TIME...
Nevada got back on the high road to prosperity. So did Biltz, and with the formation of the Biltz-McCarran axis, he became the state's dominant political force too. As such, he is seldom challenged. For one thing, the state's citizens have no feeling of being bossed, for Biltz not only keeps out of print, but approves "safe" candidates of either party and seldom minds which wins. For another, even Norman Biltz's critics find him hard to resist, particularly if he woos them, amid squads of millionaires, at one of his mountaintop barbecues...
...advertising from Nevada gamblers mysteriously vanishing from his paper. But even such heretics are forgiven and rewarded if they mend their ways. Recalcitrant Editor M. M. Zenoff of Boulder City was given a fancy public-relations job after he saw the light, and recalcitrant Politico Denver Dickerson, through Pat McCarran, got a job in State Department public relations in exotic Rangoon. Dickerson may yet be brought home to be groomed as the Biltz-McCarran candidate for governor next year...
...citizens from other states who do not seem to understand that Biltz knows what is best for them all. One of the noisiest is ex-New Yorker Hank Greenspun, publisher of the Las Vegas Sun. When gambling ads disappeared from Greenspun's paper, he sued both Senator McCarran and the casino operators for conspiring to put him out of business, and got a fat $86,000 settlement out of court. Tom Mechling is making noises like a man who wants to run for governor of Nevada next year, and he has a core of political strength among the newcomers...