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By Any Other Name, McCarthyism
Shelton, Willard | September 1, 1951 issue

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The article focuses on U.S. Senator Pat McCarran's personally conducted subcommittee set up to investigate subversion, communism, conspiracy and intellectual life of the U.S. in the nineteen thirties and the U.S. administration under President Harry S. Truman. The McCarran committee is operating under a self-imposed discipline with a minimum of uproar and this superficial restraint has led some ordinarily astute observers to imagine that its procedures are objective and that it intends to steer clear of "McCarthyism." The subcommittee was handpicked by McCarran to seize the Communist-chasing hunting grounds long staked out for its own by the U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities.

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LEGISLATIVE bodies -- Committees; MCCARRAN, Pat; LEGISLATORS -- United States; TRUMAN, Harry S., 1884-1972; PRESIDENTS -- United States; COMMUNISM; UNITED States
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