Word: benton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...history's first formal meeting of New World and Old World legislators, and the Europeans had planned lots of dinnertime get-togethers. The Americans were back-slappingly friendly, but they wanted to see a little zip. "Cut out the banquets," said Connecticut's well-fed Senator Bill Benton. "We've come here to ask some important questions, and we want the whole story." A Briton remarked unhappily on the second day, "This isn't a conference, it's a court of inquiry...
...Senator William Benton...
McCarthy never answers criticisms, just savagely attacks the critic. Anyone who voices reservations about his methods is blasted as a "defender of Communists." The Senate resolution of Connecticut's William Benton asking his ejection charges McCarthy with misrepresentation, deception and outright perjury. Last week a subcommittee of Senators decided that the charges warranted a full investigation. McCarthy's response: the committee is trying to throw him out of the Senate "because of my" fight against Communism...
...painting in the gusty mood of Thomas Benton's rising Midwestern school. But the strained, angry faces he gave his farmer subjects betrayed the influence of Marxart. Swayed by left-wing friends and the memories of a rough childhood, the ex-house painter went socially conscious with a vengeance. In 1934, after an uproar over his teaching of mixed white and Negro art classes in St. Louis' Old Courthouse (where slaves had once been auctioned), Jones joined the Communist Party...
...Benton's case suffered from the same fault as McCarthy's. As Benton admitted, "no one of these charges would be enough. It is a pattern of behavior over the years...