Word: mccarrans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...help meet the free world's refugee problems by permitting "the special admission of 120,000 immigrants per year for the next two years." A few days later, the chairman of Congress' Joint Immigration Committee revealed that the President had asked for a re-examination of the McCarran Act "with a view to achieving legislation which would be fair and just to all." ¶Wrote C.I.O. Boss Walter Reuther (who had asked him to call a conference on full employment) that he "firmly" subscribes to "the Employment Act of 1946, [which] reflects a determination on the part...
...Senator McCarran's Internal Security subcommittee could find no evidence of treason on his part. Instead, they indicted him on seven counts of perjury. If imprisoned because of any one of them, he will thenceforth be known as the "convicted perjurer-traitor" by large segments of the American press and public, so it is as convenient a charge...
Jaffe is scheduled to speak on the McCarran-Walters Act, while Neusner will deliver an address on "Early Boston Jewry," the subject of his thesis...
...Democrats: Nevada's Pat McCarran and Colorado's Ed Johnson. Eleven Republicans: Bridges, McCarthy. Dirksen, Ohio's Bricker, Idaho's Dworshak and Welker, Arizona's Goldwater, Iowa's Hickenlooper, Nevada's Malone, South Dakota's Mundt, Kansas' Schoeppel...
Picking up McCarran's remark about a test, Dulles said that since there had been a full investigation of Bohlen and that the President and the Foreign Relations Committee had been fully informed of it, the whole case was merely "an acid test of the orderly process of our Government...