Word: cohn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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McCarthy insisted that neither he nor his staff-including Roy Cohn-had used pressure to get Schine a special assignment. Why, then, asked Jenkins, had McCarthy cautioned the Army not to give Schine special treatment? Said Joe: the Army itself had, "on some instances," brought the Schine matter up. Another reason was that "the Communist liners started to loose their attack," charging McCarthy-Cohn intervention on Schine's behalf. The attacks, he recalled, came from Columnist Drew Pearson-"one of the greatest Communist-line smearers that I know"-and Columnists Joseph and Stewart Alsop...
What will probably be remembered as the most memorable scene of the McCarthy-Army hearings occurred on the 30th day. Army Counsel Joseph Welch was winding up his dogged cross-examination of Roy Cohn when Joe McCarthy caressed the McCarthy cheek with the stem of his glasses and commandeered the microphone for what sounded like just another diversion. As McCarthy got rolling, Welch sat bolt upright and stared unbelievingly at the man just six feet away across the table. The packed room hushed; Roy Cohn grimaced toward McCarthy, shook his head, and his lips seemed to form the words...
Rain or shine, Cohn or Schine, the CRIMSON will hold its traditional alumni cocktail party starting at 4:30 this afternoon...
...Cohn: How about this deal of picking up somebody once he's in [the Army...
...calls came two important points favoring McCarthy: 1) Symington, now one of the senatorial "judges," was disclosed as an intense partisan and close collaborator of Stevens, one of the accused, in the Zwicker case; 2) Stevens carried his appeasement of Cohn and Schine to the point where he virtually invited the Cohn-McCarthy aggression against...