Word: cohn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Judges. Summing up the pressures brought against him by Cohn on Schine's behalf, Adams said: "If you would pile together all of the abuse that I had from all the other members of Congress and all of the other congressional employees over a period of five years, it would not compare to the abuse that I took over this situation...
...While Adams testified, Joe McCarthy's attitude ranged from lofty indifference, as he sipped milk and flipped the pages of a newspaper, to deep interest, as he furiously scribbled notes on 3-by-5 index cards. At his side sat Roy Cohn, now whispering, now scowling, now grimacing and turning up the whites of his eyes, now managing a pained smile. On McCarthy's other side was Frank Carr, his pudgy face impassive, the silent man of the hearings...
...cross-examination Counsel Jenkins and committee members sought to show that Adams had tried to bring an end to McCarthy's investigation of Army Communism by 1) ingratiating himself with Joe and Cohn, 2) using Schine as a "hostage," and 3) when these efforts failed, threatening to make public a report on the McCarthy-Cohn-Carr efforts to get favors for Schine unless Joe changed his mind about issuing subpoenas for members of the Army loyalty board...
...McKinley Dirksen was placed under oath and told how John Adams and White House Aide Gerald Morgan came to his office last Jan. 22 to urge against the subcommittee's calling Army loyalty panelists. It was then, Dirksen said, that he heard for the first time of the Cohn-Schine matter. Although he could not say that Adams actually tried to use the Cohn-Schine report as a club, Dirksen said that he had a "vague" recollection of "hints" in that direction, all of which caused him much "distress of spirit...
...Dakota's Senator Mundt, smilingly bemoaning his failure to wear his blue "television shirt," offered similar testimony about a talk he had with Adams alone on Jan. 22. Mundt said that he had been uneasy about the "juxtaposition" in which Adams placed the loyalty board plea and the Cohn-Schine affair. Mundt said that he had thought the topics were "entirely unrelated." Michigan's Senator Potter testified along the same lines about a conversation with Deputy Army Counselor Lewis Berry...