Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Saltonstall and nine other Republicans joined 37 Democrats in voting to amend the act. The real surprise was that 20 Republicans and one Democrat (Nevada's McCarran) held out. The House, after almost as bitter an argument, passed the amendment by 220 to 105 (100 Republicans, five Democrats...
With Scissors & Paste. One bill bore the name of Nevada's portly Pat McCarran. Actually it had started out as a catchall of five different anti-Communist measures. McCarran had gone to work with scissors and paste, put in a few ideas of his own and laid the result before the Senate. His omnibus bill was a clumsy-looking vehicle. Nevertheless it moved. It moved along the path of recent court opinions which found Communism a clear and present danger, branded the basic aims of Communism as criminal in intent. It was aimed at Communists and their organizations...
...Nevada, silver-maned old Senator Pat McCarran, who did not even bother to campaign, was an easy 3-to-1 winner in the Democratic primary. For the November election, McCarran was an odds-on favorite to defeat Republican George Marshall, a Las Vegas lawyer...
...Like That." The bill added one item denounced by the President and the State Department: Nevada Senator Pat McCarran's $62.5 million loan, with no strings attached, to Franco's Spain. The House argued over that one. Supporters saw it as buying the cooperation of Spain in event of war in Europe, and at least as morally justified as a loan to Tito. Not only New York's pinko Vito Marcantonio was disturbed by the loan; Virginia's conservative Howard Smith demanded to know what guarantee anybody had that Franco would help the West in case...
Desk-Bound Intellectuals. The Democrats, on the defensive for what was indeed a wretched record, even suffered a defection from their own ranks. Nevada's Pat McCarran, a blustery Democrat whose chief concern with foreign policy has been a single-minded drive to bring Spain into ECA, declared that the dust had settled long enough in Asia. Roared McCarran: "I am quite familiar with the doctrine of those desk-bound intellectuals who got all mixed up, those gentlemen who would probably describe Al Capone as the product of an unhappy childhood, those gentlemen who saw a boil on China...