Word: blackmailings
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...lying, McCarthy or Army Secretary Robert Stevens. McCarthy denied that he and his 27-year-old counsel, Roy Cohn, had demanded special treatment and numerous petty favors for Draftee Schine. He lashed back with desperate countercharges, e.g., the Army was using Schine as a "hostage" to "blackmail" him and, to take the heat off itself, had offered tips on "dirt" in the other services. Stevens denied the countercharges...
...time for the afternoon editions, McCarthy and Cohn fired a counterblast: the Army had tried to "blackmail" the committee into calling off its investigation of Communists, the Army had tried to use Private Schine as "a hostage," and Secretary of the Army Robert T. Stevens had urged the committee to leave the Army alone and "go after the Navy, Air Force and Defense Department" instead...
...Love as Blackmail. Butler was born in 1835, two years before Queen Victoria was crowned. His father, Canon Thomas Butler, was himself a bishop's son-a man who took for granted that his own filial piety would be duplicated in his children. Samuel's mother was also typical of her class and times, i.e., everything a mother of the 19503 tries not to be. It was mother Butler's custom to treat little Sam to "sofa talks"-long, cozy, heart-to-heart, during which he was made to "feel guilty for not being sufficiently grateful...
During McCarthy's hunt for Communists at Fort Monmouth, Army emissaries to McCarthy warned, as quietly as they knew how, that perhaps the Schine affair had gone too far. McCarthy interpreted this as a blackmail threat and tape-recorded the conversations. Then he told his committee, according to Army officials, "The Army is holding Schine hostage to get me to lay off." Cohn had kept a careful eye open for Army cases. When his bellicose boss renewed his interest in the Army, Cohn handed him the Peress case (see box). McCarthy used it on a recent speaking tour...
...United States, and the horror of adding another to these burdens seemed to me to be overwhelming. I was promised that if I would sign a letter that attorneys would prepare, it would never be made public and that in time it would be destroyed . .. That it was blackmail, I now recognize...