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...Committee's charges were based largely on activities of Beck as president and Frank Brewster, Seattle, and Sidney Brennan, Minneapolis, as vicepresidents...
William J. Brennan, newly-appointed Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, was Chief Justice for the argument. Brennan's associates on the bench were Raymond S. Wilkins, Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and William L. Hendersen of the Court of Appeals of Maryland...
...Senate considered President Eisenhower's nomination of William Joseph Brennan Jr. as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, McCarthy charged that the 50-year-old jurist had used the "privileged sanctuary" of the New Jersey Supreme Court "to conduct guerrilla warfare against anyone who would dare attempt to expose individual Communists." Patiently, his colleagues heard McCarthy out, then, with McCarthy voicing the single "no," confirmed the nomination by voice vote...
...live through, but somehow they seemed even worse in retrospect last week when Joe's familiar sneer and snarl found their way back into the news and onto TV screens. In the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing room, McCarthy glared balefully at New Jersey's able William J. Brennan, appointed by Ike to the Supreme Court last fall (TIME, Oct. 8) and now up for Senate confirmation. "Do you approve of congressional investigations and exposure of the Communist conspiracy setup?" asked Joe. Replied Brennan (who, while a justice on the New Jersey Supreme Court, had incurred...
...Brennan's soft answer turned away no wrath: still determined to fight Brennan's Senate confirmation, McCarthy ranted away trying to make it appear that Roman Catholic Brennan was soft on Communism. Clasping his hands on the table in front 'of him, Brennan answered Joe's questions calmly. But even when Joe gave it up as a bad job, he could still fall back on the explanation he had made at the hearing's start: "I don't have any high hopes of being successful in opposition to Justice Brennan's nomination...