Word: cohn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some public education-especially about the characters of McCarthy and his counsel. Roy Cohn-might result from this show. But in its first few days, the main point shown was that the legal trial, which everyone takes for granted, is a most complex and valuable institution-not to be parodied by a vulgar imitation of judicial process...
...discussing the investigatory duties of a committee counsel, Halley also defended the controversial trip to Europe made last year by Roy M. Cohn and G. David Schine, two principals in the current hearings...
That did not fool the Mundt committee's Counsel Ray Jenkins for an instant. McCarthy had charged the Army with "blackmail," he snapped, and if Cohn did not want to write out the details, he, Jenkins, would. Cohn backtracked, agreed to supply the information...
...bill of particulars" against McCarthy & Co. were circulated around Capitol Hill. Inevitably the bill leaked out to newsmen. To prevent further "piecemeal leaks," Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington, a committee Democrat, released the full text. McCarthy, himself a skillful practitioner of the calculated leak, cried foul. Cohn trumpeted a threat to obstruct the investigation, and demanded an investigation of the leaks. Later he withdrew the threat...
...Imposing Portfolio. The bill of particulars, which named names, dates, places and circumstances, began bluntly: "The Department of the Army alleges that Senator Joseph R. McCarthy as Chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations . . . and its chief counsel, R. M. Cohn, as well as other members of its staff, sought by improper means to obtain preferential treatment for one Pvt. G. David Schine." It repeated much of the story told last month in the Army's report on favor-seeking for Private Gerard David Schine and added a few new incidents. It grouped the Army's charges into...