Word: cohn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Supreme Court, U.S. attorneys were disappointed. Their frustration was all the keener because the men now working on the case are not to blame for the carelessly drawn indictment. The case was originally presented to a grand jury in 1952. A key man in its preparation: Lawyer Roy M. Cohn, then a special Assistant to the Attorney General, now Senator Joe McCarthy's right-hand...
Potter's statement seemed to shift the 4-3 balance on the committee in favor of the Democrats and might result in a majority report that recommended the firing, among others, of Committee Counsel Roy Cohn, a result which McCarthy would find most distasteful...
...Refusing to testify personally. 3. The Army shortly released a 34-page report charging that Chief Counsel Roy Cohn threatened to wreck the Army unless : 1. He was admitted to West Point...
...prestige across the U.S. Reason: both the "good guys" and the "bad guys" were Republicans. Secretary Stevens, as the Administration's chief warrior, won sympathy as an earnest, long-suffering gentleman, but lost respect, perhaps irrevocably, when he told to what lengths he had gone to accommodate McCarthy, Cohn and Schine. Counselor Adams, the genial fixer, emerged as a sly fighter, but one whom Roy Cohn thought he could outwit-and nearly...
...McCarthy-Army hear ings finally seemed at hand. What damage or good had they caused? The original charges and countercharges had become all but secondary issues, and, with the testimony largely in, they could easily be disposed of: CJ Did Senator McCarthy and his chief counsel, Roy Cohn, try to get favored treatment for Private David Schine? Despite McCarthy's denials (see above), most TV-viewers would agree that they did. They would also agree that for a sickeningly long time, Army Secretary Stevens went out of his way to accommodate McCarthy and Cohn...