Word: cohn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Howard Rushmore, whose Journal-American salary was $154 a week, was fired for "economy." Few around the shop believed that economy was the reason, least of all Rushmore. Said he: "My criticism of Roy Cohn . . . plus my persistent exposures of the crackpots calling themselves McCarthyites played a major role in my discharge...
Ironically, Rushmore was one of Roy Cohn's earliest boosters, when Cohn was an assistant U.S. attorney in Manhattan. He had praised Cohn in print and introduced him to Hearst's high priest of antiCommunism, Columnist George Sokolsky, who helped Cohn get his job with Senator Joe McCarthy. But the friendship ended when Rushmore also went to Washington for a stint as a special McCarthy committee investigator. Riled by Cohn's arrogance, Rushmore left the committee...
...brave young German veteran who had risked his life trying to assassinate Hitler, carrying as his scars a twisted arm, a wooden leg and a tormented disenchantment with America: "How do you think Germans like myself, always orating about your splendid freedom, felt when those itinerant clowns, Cohn and Schine, came through Germany ticking off your Foreign Service officers for their purging? Can you imagine how loud the Nazis laughed about 'the American way' of doing things...
First Lieut. Roy M. Cohn reported with 120 less renowned National Guard officers for a two-week stint of training duty at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Miss. Cohn took time out one evening to tell a group of local clubmen that everybody "should be trying to stop Communism," instead of criticizing his former boss, Senator Joseph McCarthy. His performance during the Army-McCarthy hearings having established him as something of an expert on the draft if not on wangling commissions, Cohn was naturally assigned to a group studying Selective Service. But when the nation's Selective Service...
...months ago Winchell had bragged in print that he had his own copy of the "Personal & Confidential" document on the loyalty of Fort Monmouth personnel that got McCarthy into trouble. The Watkins committee wanted to know where Winchell, who is a good friend of both Joe McCarthy and Roy Cohn, got his copy of the document...