Word: cohn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Braucher said Secretary Stevens had left an impression of cander rather than evasiveness. "How can a man answer yes or no to 25 questions all at once?" he asked. "Cohn, Adams, and McCarthy all seem to be making arguments from the witness stand, while Stevens seems to be trying sincerely to reveal the facts. "I'll bet my marbles on a witness like Stevens," he added...
...hearings went into their second day, Joe McCarthy seemed more assured, less willing to heed the gadfly advice of Aide Roy Cohn, who soon lapsed into a brooding silence. By prearrangement, the Army side and the McCarthy group changed places at the big table, so that neither could have an advantage in television camera angles. Army Secretary Stevens, back as a witness, also seemed more at ease-despite the fact that he had finished his prepared statement and was on his own. Committee Counsel Ray Jenkins speeded the pace of his questions, often cutting off answers...
...committee got into a snarl that was to tie it up for the rest of the day. Describing a telephone call he got last Nov. 7 from McCarthy, Stevens said: "Now in that conversation Senator McCarthy said that one of the few things he had trouble with Mr. Cohn about was Dave Schine. He said that 'Roy thinks that Dave ought to be a general and operate from a penthouse on the Waldorf-Astoria' or words to that effect. Senator McCarthy then said that he thought a few weekends off for David Schine might be arranged, or words...
...questions to the charges made against McCarthy's staff director, Francis Carr, who had also been accused by the Army of intervening on Schine's behalf. In reply to Mundt, Stevens said Carr had not sought preferential treatment for Schine to nearly the extent that Roy Cohn had. Stevens concluded: "I think Mr. Carr might have been a little more active in trying to stop some of the conversations that went on, and he did not do that...
...crime hearings, which starred such unforgettable characters as Bible-quoting Senator Charles Tobey, Underworld Moll Virginia Hill and Frank ("The Hands") Costello, but the cast was fascinating in its own way. There were McCarthy, alternately menacing and benign, doodling or rolling his eyes at the ceiling; slick-haired Roy Cohn, licking his lips and buzzing in the boss's ear; Secretary Stevens, eager but harassed, his horn-rimmed glasses forever sliding down his nose; Arkansas' Senator McClellan. rough and ready, if sometimes confused, the committee's angry man; Senator Mundt, jowls aquiver, chugging at his pipe; Counsel...