Word: cohn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...impression given by the Senators' testimony was that Adams had used the Cohn-Schine report to attempt a form of bureaucratic blackmail. But Adams had a different explanation of how the Schine case came to be coupled with the subpoenas to the Army loyalty board...
Under direct examination Adams had told of Cohn's intense eagerness to get Schine assigned back to New York. On Jan. 18, said Adams, he talked long distance with Cohn, then on vacation in Boca Raton, Fla., and passed on the unwelcome word that Schine would be at Camp Gordon for from two to five months...
...When Cohn heard this news, Adams said, it "was obvious to me that he was very upset. I asked him if he intended to continue his vacation in Florida-he had only been there about a day or two days-and he said something to me to the effect then about 'How can I, when this has happened...
...said there was nothing he could do about it, that Mr. Cohn had returned the night before at 8:50 p.m. from Florida, which is just 6½ hours after he talked to me on the telephone from Boca Raton, and there was nothing that Carr could do about...
Because of this, Adams said, when he went to visit Senators Mundt and Dirksen, the matters of the loyalty board and of the Cohn-Schine case were so linked in his mind that he believed the one was the direct result of, and reprisal for, the other...