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...Democratic victory that included the re-election of liberal Paul Douglas, for instance, would be interpreted by scores of ear-flapping Congressmen of both parties as a sure sign that the nation had swung leftward again. Similarly, the defeat of such Eisenhower Republicans as New Jersey's Clifford Case together with victory for right-wing Republicans would reopen the split in the Republican Party, which this campaign has done much to heal. Facing the voters, the right-wing Republicans struck their flags and yelled to President Eisenhower for help. If his coattails pull the party through with majorities...
...sinuses, Joe McCarthy strode out of Bethesda Naval Medical Center one day last week and immediately began splashing around in the political gutter. Summoning the press, the Wisconsin Senator announced that he is "supporting all of the Republican candidates" this year except one. The exception: New Jersey Senatorial Candidate Clifford Case, who early in the campaign denounced McCarthy as a "distracting and divisive" force in the Republican Party and in the nation. McCarthy was opposed to Case for "reasons I think will be made public before election." With a sneer, he vaguely referred to some "material" about Case...
...hard by a two-column picture of a smiling Joe McCarthy, the Star-Ledger reported that the "material" concerned Case's sister Adelaide. The newspaper said that former Communist Bella V. Dodd remembered Adelaide Case "as an active member of several Communist-front groups I helped organize." When Clifford Case saw the story, he canceled all other campaign activities to prepare his reply to this "gutter politics...
Within a few hours after the story was published, more seams of McCarthyism began to show. Bella Dodd, a New York lawyer, said that she had known a "middleaged" Adelaide Case in Communist-front organizations in 1940 and 1941, but she "never related her to" Clifford Case and did not know Case's sister. There was another, older Adelaide Case, no kin, who was a teacher at Teachers College, Columbia University, and who died...
This week Clifford Case sat before the television cameras and quietly called the story about his sister a dirty smear. His sister, a physical-education teacher at the exclusive Kingswood School for Girls near Detroit, had flown to New York to help him draft the reply. Said Case: "The Adelaide Case mentioned by Bella Dodd was not my sister . . . The Adelaide Case Miss Dodd knew in 1943 was then a middle-aged woman . . . my sister Adelaide was only 31 at that time . . . was then teaching physical education in Boston . . . She never heard of Miss Dodd or the activities described...