Word: nevada
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Democrats have strong prospects for taking two seats presently held by Republicans. They are in Nevada and Wyoming. In the last decade, Nevada Republicans have won only with help from Democrat Pat McCarran, whose feuds within his own party sometimes caused him to support the G.O.P. By gubernatorial appointment, Republican Ernest S. Brown now tentatively holds the Senate place left vacant by McCarran's death. He will not get the necessary McCarranite votes; his opponent, Alan Bible, was one of the old man's most devoted followers...
...death of Nevada's splenetic old Senator Pat McCarran (TIME, Oct. 11) gave the G.O.P. hopes of an election-year windfall: a sure Senate seat. Republican Governor Charles Russell appointed Reno Attorney Ernest Brown to replace Democrat McCarran, clearly intended that Brown should finish the last two years of Pat's term. The Democrats, naturally, wanted an election this year...
Last week the Nevada Supreme Court (one Democrat, two Republicans) unanimously decided the legal tangle for the Democrats, ordered the balance of the term (January 1955 to January 1957) filled at next month's election. Brown will have to run against former State Attorney General Alan Bible, a friend and protege of McCarran who was whipped in the 1952 senatorial primary by Political Amateur Tom Mechling. Mechling, in turn, was beaten by G.O.P. Senator George ("Molly") Malone, who in Nevada's strange and shifting political alliances had the backing of Democrat McCarran. The probability this year is that...
Within hours after Senator McCarran's death, Nevada politicians were locked in close combat over a successor. Democratic Attorney General William Mathews ruled that the vacancy must be filled at the November 2 election. Republican Governor Charles Russell retaliated by appointing Ernest S. Brown, a lawyer and a Republican, to fill the term, which does not expire until 1956. The argument will probably have to be settled in Nevada courts...
Died. Patrick Anthony McCarran, 78,Nevada's longtime (since 1933) Democratic Senator and state political boss; of a heart ailment; in Hawthorne, Nev. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...