Word: cohn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...McCarthy's Communist-hunting committee was negligible, and, therefore, as the Democratic report was at pains to emphasize, efforts to spring him from Army duty were unjustified. Both reports, despite their tonal distinctions, agreed that McCarthy himself was to blame for not putting the brakes on Roy Cohn's efforts to get favors for his friend Schine...
...McCarthy's "support and backing of Mr. Cohn and his often-repeated confidence in him provided all that was necessary to give full strength and authority . . . to any project undertaken by Mr. Cohn . . . There is no indication that [McCarthy] regarded Mr. Cohn's actions as constituting usurpation...
...Cohn "used the full power of his position . . . to obtain preferential treatment for [Schine] . . . Mr. Cohn was unrelenting to the point of harassment to give impetus to his requests in behalf of Mr. Schine . . . His unreasonableness in the matter of the concessions he asked for Mr. Schine was conceded by [McCarthy...
...finally written, if there is such a thing as a medal for "distinguished political disservice," it might be awarded to the members of the White House staff and the Administration offi cials who thought up the bright idea of a public fight with McCarthy by means of the Cohn-Schine trivialities...
...buddies, Army Private G. (for Gerard) David Schine and Roy M. Cohn, hopped off a plane at Newark Airport, denied that they had planned to be fellow travelers, flatly turned down photographers' requests for a cozy picture...