Word: attackers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...since the late Senator Joe McCarthy's virulent attack on Brigadier General Ralph Zwicker* had the nation witnessed such a bitter and protracted personal assault by a member of Congress. Last week, in the memorable clash of the Senator v. the Ambassador, a presidential mission was compromised, and from the floor of the Senate reckless charges were cast against the integrity of U.S. diplomatic policy. Chief figures in the Page One drama...
...routine. Then, day before the confirmation vote, Wayne Morse took the Senate floor, orated for 32 hours-through some 20,000 words-against Clare Luce. Commented Connecticut's Republican Senator Prescott Bush when it was over: "I doubt there has ever been a more severe and bitter attack upon an individual who has been nominated by a President for a high post in the service of this Government." Samples of the Morse attack...
...Vendetta Politics." That same day, sensing the results that would flow from Morse's attacks on his wife, Henry R. Luce issued a statement. "For 25 years in the course of her public life," said he, "my wife has taken not only the criticisms provoked by her own views and actions but also many punches which were really intended for me or for the publications of which I am editor in chief. The attack of Senator Wayne Morse is perhaps the most vitriolic example of this." Mrs. Luce, he recalled, had offered to resign after TIME became a factor...
...belief is," replied Illinois' Dirksen, "that she may have had some provocation-among other things, Wayne has made her out to be a liar and dishonest." Next day Dirksen finished the debate off by revealing how low the Morse attack had fallen. Morse, he said (and Morse later verified it), called Mrs. Luce's physician in New York in an attempt to find out whether she had ever been under psychiatric care. Dirksen, quoting the doctor, said: "She-isn't and wasn...
Starting at attack will be Dave Bohn, Jerry Pyle, and Nick Lamont, with Andy Leaf alternating throughout the game. Chris Stone will be in the nets...