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...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 and fronts, requiring them to register...
Above & Below. It was against the omnibus McCarran measure that Paul Douglas, like Harry Truman, first cried out in the name of civil rights. The bill, said Douglas, "can easily lead to the smearing of innocent persons." He seized on the provision making it a crime to "contribute substantially" to the establishment of a dictatorship in the U.S. Who was to say what "substantially" meant...
...Signed the $36 billion omnibus appropriation bill, meanwhile rapping Congress for ordering him to do what Congress could not do, i.e., cut $550 million from the bill, and declaring, as forecast, that he would disregard Congress' instructions to lend $62.5 million of the appropriation to Franco's Spain...
...first step: administrative union for a group of 29 scattered schools of all sorts for which New York was already paying the bills, including teachers' colleges, technical institutes, schools of forestry and industrial relations. To distinguish it from privately administered and financed New York University (N.Y.U.), the new omnibus outfit was named the State University of New York. With Stanford's onetime Acting President Alvin C. Eurich at its head, S.U.N.Y. began operations last year...
With the final approval of the House and the Senate, the omnibus bill goes to Harry Truman, who will have the choice of gagging over details and signing, or vetoing and jeopardizing the whole program. Altogether, the nation faced a bill for 1951 of close to $69 billion...