Word: patly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...judge by The Man Who Lived Backward, the Florida sun has reduced Author Ross's butter-pat leftism to a soft, liberal mush. He spreads it thick on every page of the novel. Yet, at the same time, Ross clearly feels a futility in the brand of liberalism he professes. In this confusion of feelings, he apparently could not decide whether to satirize or eulogize his intellectual liberal hero; so he did both. The result is a hectic sort of politico-literary game of tail-the-donkey, combining some elements of post office. What rescues the book from total...
...rash of price rises last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) many a businessman had a pat answer: "We're not raising prices just because of the Korean war. The boom was on before that." And commodity prices which had slumped last winter had started up again before Korea because of the heavy new buying from industry...