Word: chavez
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week ailing, 62-year-old Dennis Chavez, whose political roots are firm and fast in heavily Catholic New Mexico, rose in the Senate for one of his infrequent speeches. "Mr. President," said he, "for the first time in my 19 years in Congress, I make the deliberate point of referring to my religion. I speak as a Roman Catholic...
...cloak, said Dennis Chavez, is Senator Joe McCarthy's key witness, ex-Communist editor-turned-convert, Louis Francis Budenz, "who has now been elevated to the unique position of America's No. 1 professional witness in all matters concerning loyalty, patriotism and political reliability." Actually, said Chavez cuttingly, Budenz had led a life of "bawdy personal excesses," had three children by his present wife before marrying her in 1945, and had been arrested 21 times "before he joined the Communists in 1935 at the tender...
Another Senator suggested work on another bill; Kilgore objected. "The Senate of the United States should not be placed in this position," cried Arizona's Ernest McFarland. Snapped New Mexico's Dennis Chavez: "A pretty picture is being painted before the country." Finally, outwaited, McCarran heaved himself up, announced that he would spend ten minutes of his remaining...