Word: carr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make the 3:30 train." The committee room was breathless with suspense as Committee Counsel Ray Jenkins asked the inevitable question: Did Adams catch the 3:30 train? Replied John Adams: "The 3:30 train was ten minutes late, so I made it." Then he added: "Mr. Carr told me a few days later that he didn't think I should feel badly about the way I was put out of the car because he said I should have seen the way Senator McCarthy left the car a few blocks later"-in front of the Waldorf-Astoria...
...Ride. Last Dec. 17, for example, Adams had lunch in downtown Manhattan with McCarthy, Subcommittee Staff Director Frank Carr and Committee Counsel Roy Cohn, the most lordly 27-year-old since Alexander of Macedon. Adams suggested that they discuss the Schine matter...
...newspaper, to deep interest, as he furiously scribbled notes on 3-by-5 index cards. At his side sat Roy Cohn, now whispering, now scowling, now grimacing and turning up the whites of his eyes, now managing a pained smile. On McCarthy's other side was Frank Carr, his pudgy face impassive, the silent man of the hearings...
...sought to show that Adams had tried to bring an end to McCarthy's investigation of Army Communism by 1) ingratiating himself with Joe and Cohn, 2) using Schine as a "hostage," and 3) when these efforts failed, threatening to make public a report on the McCarthy-Cohn-Carr efforts to get favors for Schine unless Joe changed his mind about issuing subpoenas for members of the Army loyalty board...
...very next morning, Adams was told by Frank Carr that loyalty board members would be called to testify. Said Adams: "I objected to it very strenuously. I pointed out to him that we had discussed this matter many times, and that there had been an informal understanding, in so far as I knew, that this matter would not become an issue. I pointed out to him Mr. Stevens left for the Far East just two days ago, or a day ago, and now this develops. I asked him why it happened...